Import and export subscriptions

Everything here is in Settings → Backup & Restore.

OPML

OPML is the file every reader exports and imports: your subscriptions with their folders.

Import OPML… takes the file. Each feed is filed under the folder it sits in; a folder becomes a category, and a category with the same name is reused rather than duplicated. The result lists what happened to every row: added, already followed, not a valid address, or over the plan's feed limit, where the import stops. Nothing is fetched during the import itself; the new feeds are read on the engine's next pass, within a minute or two.

Export OPML writes your subscriptions as one folder per category, for any other reader.

Settings from Miniflux

OPML carries addresses and folders, nothing else. If you come from Miniflux, the Settings from Miniflux block reads what OPML cannot: a feed's keep and block rules, the full-text crawler and scraper rules, paused feeds, and the fetch settings. Enter the Miniflux address and an API token; the token is used for that one read and not kept.

The first run is a dry run and shows what would change. A Miniflux value fills a field that is empty here; where a field already has a different value, the row is marked as a conflict and is written only when you tick overwrite. An empty Miniflux value never wipes anything, and a field your plan does not include is skipped rather than failing the import. Apply subscribes the feeds that are missing and writes the rest.

A settings export of the miniflux-reader interface can be attached too; its per-feed settings are renamed to the feeds here and merged in.

The reader's own settings

Layout, themes, the sidebar's state and the rest of the interface settings live in the browser and are synced to your account. Export saves them as a file and Import reads one back, which is how a second browser or a new machine gets the same reader.