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| title: News Digest | |
| emoji: 📰 | |
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| sdk: docker | |
| pinned: false | |
| # OneNews | |
| **⚠️ Experimental / Educational project — built to learn how scrapers and AI work from scratch. Not production-ready. Not intended to be.** | |
| **Your daily news, scraped, scored, sorted, and served in tabs. No AI slop, no crypto bros, no "you won't believe what happens next."** | |
| OneNews pulls from ~40 RSS feeds across 9 categories — Geopolitical, World Health, Tech, Cybersecurity, Funny/Weird, Gaming, Movies, Arab World, and Tunisia — runs them through a trust/recency/coverage scoring engine, and displays everything in a clean tabbed web UI. All written from scratch to understand every moving part. | |
| ## What makes it special? | |
| - **Built to learn.** Everything is hand-rolled — no black boxes, no copy-paste agency code. | |
| - **Zero ads, zero trackers.** Just headlines, summaries, and a relevance score. | |
| - **Keyword-based topic detection** with regex patterns (not an LLM hallucinating categories). | |
| - **Source-domain fallback** — when keywords fail, the domain decides (onion.com → Funny/Weird, variety.com → Movies, etc.) | |
| - **Trust scoring** based on source rep, article length, factual language, clickbait penalties, and opinion markers. | |
| - **Date-grouped UI** with daily headers. News doesn't care about your feed order. | |
| - **Scoring model you can tune** — every weight lives in one config file. | |
| ## Quick Start | |
| ```bash | |
| python webapp.py | |
| ``` | |
| Opens at `http://localhost:5050`. First load takes ~5 min while 40 RSS feeds get fetched and scored. Go make tea. | |
| ## Stack | |
| | Layer | Tech | | |
| |-------|------| | |
| | Backend | Flask | | |
| | Scraping | feedparser + requests + trafilatura | | |
| | NLP | regex patterns (no transformers — runs on a toaster) | | |
| | Scoring | weighted: pop 0.20 × trust 0.35 × coverage 0.30 × recency 0.15 | | |
| | UI | vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, zero frameworks | | |
| ## Categories | |
| Geopolitical | World Health | Tech | Cybersecurity | Funny/Weird | Gaming | Movies | Arab World | Tunisia | |
| ## What I learned building this | |
| - How RSS feeds actually work under the hood (you'd be surprised how many are broken) | |
| - Trafilatura for article extraction (beats rolling your own readability) | |
| - The surprisingly hard problem of classifying news with just regex | |
| - Why domain-level fallbacks matter when keyword matching comes up empty | |
| - That Flask is perfectly fine for small stuff despite what Twitter says | |
| - Scoring is 90% tuning weights and 10% math | |
| ## FAQ | |
| **Q: Will it scale?** | |
| A: It scales to your sofa. It's a single Flask process running on whatever laptop you own. | |
| **Q: Is this production-ready?** | |
| A: No. Read the first sentence of this README again. | |
| **Q: Night mode?** | |
| A: The UI is already dark. You're welcome. | |
| **Q: Why 4 AM Tunisian time for refresh?** | |
| A: That's when the coffee kicks in. | |
| **Q: Can I contribute?** | |
| A: This is a learning project. Fork it and make your own. | |