News Router
hosted · 2026I got sick of six news tabs and a feed that never ends. This runs on my server, pulls RSS, and hands me a morning edition.
Problem
Every news app is ads, ranking, and infinite scroll. I wanted something that lives in my house, reads plain RSS, and then shuts up.
What I built
A FastAPI box polls feeds, dedupes stories, and files them into topics I set. The SvelteKit reader shows the last twelve hours as an edition. You finish it and you're done. Docker Compose to stand it up, ntfy if I want a ping at 7am, more than one account so it's not just me. Nothing leaves the machine.
Highlights
- RSS/Atom ingest with dedupe and parallel polling
- Topics and keyword routing, not a black-box feed
- 12-hour edition instead of infinite scroll
- Docker Compose + optional ntfy morning/evening push
# news-router - household RSS box
lang = "python"
api = "fastapi, sqlalchemy"
ui = "sveltekit"
ingest = "rss / atom, parallel poll, dedupe"
read = "12h edition, not a feed"
ship = "docker compose"
push = "ntfy morning + evening"
# last pull 07:12 CBC housing starts, GTA
- Python
- FastAPI
- SvelteKit
- Docker