Miniflux - Change RSS scraping frequency
reddit / selfhosted

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tys203831 · 2023-12-18 15:16

I'm self-hosting miniflux as my RSS reader. I successfully hosted it,
and now my next problem is to change the scraping frequency to 5
minutes instead of the default 1 hour.

I've added POLLING\_FREQUENCY=1 in my environment variable of the
docker-compose.yml file, but it seems not working. As the next check
is still 1 hour later.

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Below is my docker-compose.yml:

(Note: I used Traefik reverse proxy on an external networks mode, so
the configuration for Traefik is not shown here)

    version: "3.7"
    services:
      miniflux:
        image: miniflux/miniflux:latest
        container_name: miniflux
        restart: always
        depends_on:
          miniflux-db:
            condition: service_healthy
        expose:
         - "8080"
        environment:
          -
DATABASE_URL=postgres://${DATABASE_USER}:${DATABASE_PW}@miniflux-
db/miniflux?sslmode=disable
          - RUN_MIGRATIONS=1
          - CREATE_ADMIN=1
          - ADMIN_USERNAME=${ADMIN_USERNAME}
          - ADMIN_PASSWORD=${ADMIN_PASSWORD}
          - POLLING_FREQUENCY=1 # in minutes, how frequent it scrapes
          - POLLING_SCHEDULER='entry_frequency'
          - LOG_LEVEL='debug'
        labels:
          - traefik.enable=true
          -
traefik.http.routers.miniflux.rule=Host(`rss.${DOMAINNAME}`)
          - traefik.http.routers.miniflux.tls=true
          - traefik.http.routers.miniflux.tls.certresolver=letsencrypt
          - traefik.http.routers.miniflux.entrypoints=websecure
          # add authelia 2FA
          #- traefik.http.routers.miniflux.middlewares=authelia@docker
        networks:
          - proxy

      miniflux-db:
        image: postgres:alpine
        container_name: miniflux-db
        restart: always
        environment:
          - POSTGRES_USER=${DATABASE_USER}
          - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${DATABASE_PW}
        volumes:
          - miniflux-db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
        healthcheck:
          test: ["CMD", "pg_isready", "-U", "miniflux"]
          interval: 10s
          start_period: 30s
        networks:
          - proxy

    volumes:
      miniflux-db:

    networks:
      proxy:
        external: true


Hope for help. Thanks in advance.

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Shoddy_Hunter2609 · 2023-12-18 15:31

have you turned down and up the container?

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tys203831 · 2023-12-18 15:46

Thanks so much. Just for your info, I removed
POLLING_SCHEDULER='entry_frequency' from docker-compose.yml.

Then, I used docker compose down and then docker compose up to
redeploy the container.

However, the next check is still 1 hour later

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tys203831 · 2023-12-18 15:48

Then, I tried to look into \`docker logs miniflux\`

And here are the logs:

`level=INFO msg="Skipping admin user creation because it already
exists" username=`
`level=INFO msg="Starting HTTP server" listen_address=0.0.0.0:8080`

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Lemimouth · 2023-12-19 18:51

Why do you want/need an update frequency of 1 minute ? Especially for
Google News ? It's the best way to get banned from news sources.

If you want to know if a plane crashed on your town, subscribe to
local newspaper/alert system

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tys203831 · 2023-12-20 00:50

Well, it's just for testing purposes for time being....

Once I know it can be adjusted, I would probably switch back to 15
minutes or 30 minutes