Looking for an RSS aggregator/summarizer/maybe-LLM thing

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨torsi@nodebb.torsi.ca⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Basically I want a self-hosted version of Google News. If 10 feeds have near-identical coverage of the same story, I want just 1 item, with an option to see the other 9.

I went looking for something like this a couple years ago and found ~nothing. Checked again today and now there are Entirely Too Many Things.

Hoping to find something a bit more established than somebody's abandoned weekend project. There seems to be an awful lot of that out there right now.

Looking for XML or similar output. Do not need or necessarily want any sort of front end.

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bulwark@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve been really happy with fresh-rssFresh-RSS. Someone else on here put me onto about 6 months ago and it’s changed how I consume news.

I find the most time consuming part was/is curating my feed but with tools like RSS-Brige I can really get fine grain control on what makes it through.

On your LLM summarizer question, yes they have several plug-ins. I’ve recently started piping the whole feed into Gemini and telling it to pick the top 5 and summarize. But I do that in bash.

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artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Honestly Brave News is the only solution I've found for that. Just go to Brave search and search for "news". It will aggregate the top news of the day, group the different sources, then provide an AI generated digest of the story.

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ComradeMiao@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Why though? The joy is reading not reading bad versions of the same content?

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- ryanpdg1@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m with OP on this one. I enjoy reading quality content, not just the act of reading. I think the idea is that by using an LLM to help sort through the drivel you have more time to do the reading of the quality content.
  
  And really, I’m always suspicious of the why when an algorithm suggests me an article… Having something less tied directly to a companies bottom line might help me trust the content more.
  
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torsi@nodebb.torsi.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Just found this thread from March looking for the exact same thing, with no helpful suggestions unfortunately. I think folks either don't understand what's being asked or don't understand how Google News works.

https://lemmy.world/post/26280691

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- infeeeee@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Then can you explain how google news works? I never used it, maybe a lot otherrs have also no idea.
  
  From google reader i switched to feedly after google shut it down in 2013, when I started self hosting switched to ttrss, then to freshrss when it became apparent the developer of ttrss is an actual neonazi. It was always working for me so i never looked for a replacement.
  
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barkingspiders@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve been using miniflux in docker with a miniflux-ai container I found on GitHub, I seem to recall I had issues out of the box and had to tweak it but that was quite a while ago, can’t remember the details. I have it configured to generate summaries of a list of feeds in miniflux when it sees new items. Works pretty well, needs to be restarted occasionally but has been just fine for the amount of time it took to setup.

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- KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Using Miniflux for more than year now with 0 issue so far.
  
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InnerScientist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve searched dor something like this in the past and didn’t find anything.
I’ve though of hacking together a few scripts or 8n8 to interface with freshrss to do this but it’s far down my list™

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Svengarlic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
N8n can do a lot of this, easy too.

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