AI News Bot

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A bot that scrapes news articles from RSS feeds, generates AI-powered summaries, and posts the summaries and links to Lemmy.

Overview

This bot uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) and web scraping techniques to:

1. Fetch RSS feeds from specified news sources
2. Scrape the article content from the RSS feed entries
3. Generate a concise summary of the article content using AI
4. Post the summary and link to the original article on Lemmy

Features

• Fetches news articles from multiple RSS feed sources
• Generates AI-powered summaries of the article content
• Automatically posts summaries and links to Lemmy with Markdown formatting

Deploy

• clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/muntedcrocodile/ai_news_bot.git

• copy .env.example to .env and fill in the configuration in .env as required

cp .env.example .env

• Deploy with docker

docker compsoe up

• Add RSS feeds

docker exec -it ai_news_bot-ainewsbot_app-1 python add_feed.py --rss "<rss>" --name "<Name>"

• Review summaries for posting (optional depending on config)

docker exec -it ai_news_bot-ainewsbot_app-1 python review.py

Roadmap

• Add an LLm acting as a filter to remove any ads that have snuk their way into the summary, (perhaps use adblocked html loder)
• Summarise all articles for the day/week/month/year to make a daily brief
• Generate argument of for and against perspective then summarise the result of the 2 arguments
• Generate embeddings to perform content grouping/simmilarity (find the missing perspectives on an issue etc) and politicla alligmnent information

Example Use Case

1. Set up the bot to fetch RSS feeds from a popular news site
2. Run the bot to generate and post summaries to a Lemmy Community e.g.!news_summary@hilariouschaos.com

Contributing

1. Write some code
2. Make a pull request

• Toot me if you got any question @muntedcrocodile@mastodon.social

Acknowledgments

This project was inspired by LemmyAutoTldrBot.

Donations

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