📰 Cursory

Cursory is an open-source minimalistic news reader that lets you catch up with the most essential news from around the globe in 15+ languages. It is powered by Wikipedia.

Warning

Under active development. Expect bugs and breaking changes.

✨ Features

🔒 Privacy-first

No tracking, no ads, no cookies, no analytics, no third-party requests.

🚀 Lightning fast

Page size is usually under 100 KiB (including images!). This is accomplished by converting images to a modern format.

🌍 Supports 15+ languages

Supports many languages including English, Spanish, French, Russian, Korean, and more.

⏳ Stay up-to-date

Cursory is rebuilt every three hours with the latest news.

Build

Make sure Python 3.8+ is installed.

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run build command

python build.py

After the build is complete, the site directory will contain the static website.