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glean

Active·★ 872·AGPL-3.0·Updated 2026-10-20
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Glean is a self-hosted RSS reader and personal knowledge management tool designed to help information-heavy consumers efficiently manage their reading. It offers intelligent RSS aggregation, content organization with folders and tags, a clean reading experience, and full data ownership via Docker deployment.

glean sits in the RAG / Knowledge Base category, so it is usually better judged by workflow fit, deployment style, and team needs than by isolated features alone. Based on the available metadata, it leans most clearly toward RSS Subscription & Organization: Subscribe and organize feeds with OPML import/export, using multi-level folders and tags.. A representative use case is Personal Information Aggregation: Consolidate news, blogs, and articles from various RSS feeds into a single, organized platform.. The listed license is AGPL-3.0. GitHub stars are currently 872. Relevant tags include RSS Reader, Knowledge Management.

This write-up is based on the project's README and public repository data. We have not hand-tested the tool.

#RSS Reader#Knowledge Management#Self-hosted#Docker#AI#Content Curation#Information Aggregation#Web Application
$ Install
$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LeslieLeung/glean/main/docker-compose.yml -o docker-compose.yml && docker compose up -d
↗ Visit site★ GitHub
01

Features

01RSS Subscription & Organization: Subscribe and organize feeds with OPML import/export, using multi-level folders and tags.
02Self-hosted & Data Ownership: Full data ownership with easy Docker deployment, providing control over your personal data.
03Smart Reading Experience: Offers a clean reading interface, content filtering, and 'read later' functionality for efficient consumption.
04Future AI Capabilities: Planned AI-powered summaries, auto-tagging, and keyword extraction to enhance knowledge processing.
02

Why choose it

+RSS Subscription & Organization: Subscribe and organize feeds with OPML import/export, using multi-level folders and tags.
+Self-hosted & Data Ownership: Full data ownership with easy Docker deployment, providing control over your personal data.
+Personal Information Aggregation: Consolidate news, blogs, and articles from various RSS feeds into a single, organized platform.
+Supports 4 platforms or runtime environments.
03

Trade-offs

!The final decision should still be made through side-by-side comparison with similar tools.
04

Compatibility

Docker
Deployment
Verified via docs
Python
Backend Runtime
Verified via docs
React
Frontend Framework
Verified via docs
PostgreSQL
Database
Verified via docs
05

Quick start

1
$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LeslieLeung/glean/main/docker-compose.yml -o docker-compose.yml
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$ docker compose up -d
06

Use cases

↳Personal Information Aggregation: Consolidate news, blogs, and articles from various RSS feeds into a single, organized platform.
↳Knowledge Base for Professionals: Organize research papers, industry updates, and technical articles for professional development and reference.
↳Content Curation & Management: Efficiently curate and manage a large volume of online content with tagging, bookmarking, and custom filtering.
↳Private Data Ownership: Maintain full control over personal reading data without reliance on third-party services or their privacy policies.
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A self-hosted RSS reader and personal knowledge management tool.

872AGPL-3.0
Last commit2d ago
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CategoryRAG / Knowledge Base
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