# Deploy 13ft with Easypanel

URL: /templates/13ft

13ft is a self-hosted paywall bypass and "read it later" style proxy. Paste an article URL and it fetches the page the way a search engine crawler would see it, falling back to Freedium or an archive.org/archive.today snapshot if the direct fetch is blocked. It's fully stateless with no login of its own, so it is protected with HTTP Basic Auth instead.

## Installation notes

Open the app URL and sign in with the HTTP Basic Auth prompt using username admin and the auto-generated password shown as this service's first basic auth entry in Easypanel. Paste any article URL on the home page to fetch a de-paywalled version of it.

## Benefits

### No Account, No Data Kept

There's no database and no user accounts — the app is fully stateless, so there's nothing to back up or lose.

### Multiple Fallback Sources

If the direct crawler-style fetch is blocked, it automatically tries Freedium, then archive.org and archive.today snapshots.

### Self-Hosted, No Third-Party Proxy

Requests go straight from your own server instead of through a shared public instance you don't control.

## Features

### Crawler-Style Fetching

Requests pages with a search-engine-crawler user agent, which many paywalls leave unblocked for indexing purposes.

### Archive Fallbacks

Automatically retries against Freedium, archive.org, and archive.today when the direct fetch fails or hits an anti-bot challenge.

### Multi-Language UI

Choose between English, German, French, and Korean.

## Configuration

- `appServiceName` (App Service Name, required): 13ft

- `appServiceImage` (App Service Image, required): ghcr.io/wasi-master/13ft:0.4.1

- `locale` (Locale, required): English / German / French / Korean

## Services

- 13ft: app (ghcr.io/wasi-master/13ft:0.4.1)

## Resources

- [GitHub](https://github.com/wasi-master/13ft)

- [Template source](https://github.com/easypanel-io/templates/tree/main/templates/13ft)