The anti-ticker. Newsprint reads any set of RSS or Atom feeds — including subreddits — and sets them like a newspaper front page that quietly turns its own pages. No crawl, no red, no thumbnails, no urgency: a headline, a source, and an age, in a hierarchy you can read from across the room.
Any RSS or Atom feed you name, plus subreddits by bare name. Nothing is curated for you and there is no default agenda — the sources are the ones you put in the URL.
Self-hosted, single container, no database. The feed cache lives in memory and rebuilds on the first request after a restart.
A screen far enough away that you read headlines, not stories. It sets in columns and turns its own pages on a timer you choose.
Setup
A browser is genuinely enough — Plash and Fully Kiosk below are conveniences, not requirements.
F11 on Windows and Linux, ⌃⌘F on macOS.chrome --kiosk <url> — on macOS, open -a "Google Chrome" --args --kiosk <url>.Displays are ordinary web pages, so anything that can hold one open works: a Raspberry Pi on a monitor, a retired iPad, a Fire tablet, the browser built into a TV.
Configuration
Everything below, plus a live preview and a URL builder that writes the link for you, is at newsprint.livingkiosk.com/setup.
| Parameter | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
r | — | Comma-separated subreddits. |
feeds | — | Comma-separated RSS/Atom URLs. |
theme | dark | dark or paper. |
limit | 10 | Headlines per page (4–24). Reduced automatically if they don’t fit the screen. |
cycle | 24 | Seconds between page turns (5–3600). |
page | — | Pin to a fixed page (1-based) and stop auto-advancing. |
dim | 0 | Black scrim over everything, 0 to 0.8 (fleet-wide convention). |
Newsprint is open source under the MIT licence. Run it yourself with one command — the repositories go public at launch.