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I’ve wanted for a while an app I can run locally that will pull News from a list of websites, then categorize them and compile a newspaper or front page type review

Does this exist?

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just about any RSS feed reader...

[–] wise_pancake 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I think what I want is RSS plus categorization, like a Google News type app.

RSS alone can be kind of overwhelming.

But maybe I can build this on RSS with ollamma.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm sure one of the self-hosted RSS servers can do what you need. Look up TinyRSS, FreshRSS and the like.

[–] wise_pancake 3 points 3 weeks ago

TimyRSS looks interesting, noticed they have extension support (freshRSS seems to too) so marine that’s the best route to what I want

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Like seperate articles based off of topics automatically?

[–] wise_pancake 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah that’s what I’m thinking of.

What I’m envisioning is articles group by topic (international, tech, etc.) and something that groups articles on say Ukraine like Google News does.

A lot of RSS is like an email inbox and I want a news feed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I’m not trying to be overly self-promotional, but rss.ponder.cat + piefed.social’s “feeds” could probably do this very well. I actually really like the combination of having aggregated RSS feeds I can control, along with other people voting on them so particularly interesting stuff from them get surfaced more than other stuff.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Miniflux is quite good. Visually it barely bones but it has great features and works well.

https://miniflux.app/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Barely Bones sounds like a skeleton's Only Fans

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

FreshRSS is good. I've been using it for a while. Easy to install on shared hosting as it's just php

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I use FreshRSS since a few years and it's excellent!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I nextcloud news (RSS) for that sort of thing, you can organise feeds into folders and see an unread list. There is even a mobile app to get whats on the server

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nextcloud News works really well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] wise_pancake 1 points 3 weeks ago

I will check these out after work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

You could self-host Lemmy and use RSS to Lemmy services to post to your personal communities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm interested in this, too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] wise_pancake 4 points 3 weeks ago

It looks like there are already some extensions that do a bit of what I’m looking for

https://github.com/FreshRSS/Extensions

I’ll have to look at the API to see if I can add tagging or something.

[–] wise_pancake 1 points 3 weeks ago

That looks great

The list of related software they use is also very handy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ive been using it for a couple years now. Its solid. Super easy to host via docker or yunohost. It can mass import/export as well.