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Glance

A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place.

References


Directory structure

  • Directoryglance
    • Directoryconfig
      • glance.yml (*)
      • home.yml (*)
    • Directoryassets
      • user.css
    • docker-compose.yml (*)
    • .env

Make directory

Terminal window
mkdir -p {{{DOCKER_PATH_VAR}}}/glance && cd {{{DOCKER_PATH_VAR}}}/glance

docker-compose.yml

Terminal window
nano docker-compose.yml
docker-compose.yml
services:
glance:
container_name: glance
image: glanceapp/glance
volumes:
- ./config:/app/config
- ./assets:/app/assets
# Optionally, also mount docker socket if you want to use the docker containers widget
# - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
ports:
- 8080:8080
env_file: .env

glance.yml

Terminal window
nano ./config/glance.yml
./config/glance.yml
server:
assets-path: /app/assets
theme:
# Note: assets are cached by the browser, changes to the CSS file
# will not be reflected until the browser cache is cleared (Ctrl+F5)
custom-css-file: /assets/user.css
pages:
# It's not necessary to create a new file for each page and include it, you can simply
# put its contents here, though multiple pages are easier to manage when separated
!include: home.yml

home.yml

Terminal window
nano ./config/home.yml
./config/home.yml
- name: Home
# Optionally, if you only have a single page you can hide the desktop navigation for a cleaner look
# hide-desktop-navigation: true
columns:
- size: small
widgets:
- type: calendar
first-day-of-week: monday
- type: rss
limit: 10
collapse-after: 3
cache: 12h
feeds:
- url: https://selfh.st/rss/
title: selfh.st
- url: https://ciechanow.ski/atom.xml
- url: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/rss.xml
title: Josh Comeau
- url: https://samwho.dev/rss.xml
- url: https://ishadeed.com/feed.xml
title: Ahmad Shadeed
- type: twitch-channels
channels:
- theprimeagen
- j_blow
- piratesoftware
- cohhcarnage
- christitustech
- EJ_SA
- size: full
widgets:
- type: group
widgets:
- type: hacker-news
- type: lobsters
- type: videos
channels:
- UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw # Linus Tech Tips
- UCR-DXc1voovS8nhAvccRZhg # Jeff Geerling
- UCsBjURrPoezykLs9EqgamOA # Fireship
- UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ # Marques Brownlee
- UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA # Veritasium
- type: group
widgets:
- type: reddit
subreddit: technology
show-thumbnails: true
- type: reddit
subreddit: selfhosted
show-thumbnails: true
- size: small
widgets:
- type: weather
location: London, United Kingdom
units: metric # alternatively "imperial"
hour-format: 12h # alternatively "24h"
# Optionally hide the location from being displayed in the widget
# hide-location: true
- type: markets
markets:
- symbol: SPY
name: S&P 500
- symbol: BTC-USD
name: Bitcoin
- symbol: NVDA
name: NVIDIA
- symbol: AAPL
name: Apple
- symbol: MSFT
name: Microsoft
- type: releases
cache: 1d
# Without authentication the Github API allows for up to 60 requests per hour. You can create a
# read-only token from your Github account settings and use it here to increase the limit.
# token: ...
repositories:
- glanceapp/glance
- go-gitea/gitea
- immich-app/immich
- syncthing/syncthing

Start container

Terminal window
docker compose up -d

Open web ui

http://localhost:8080 or http://{{{IP_ADDRESS_VAR}}}:8080