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58 pointsgolnx10 comments

Nice project, I saw you on Reddit a couple of days ago. We're building a News API [1] and I'd like to know about how you get the data.

If you have any other questions regarding news aggregation feel free to contact me (check bio)

[1] https://newscatcherapi.com/

We perform our own crawling/indexing.. Will checkout the link, thanks

I like how snappy it is, but it seems like you have a very narrow and short coverage. Most of the words I searched had no results, or only a couple. Also, seems like for multiple terms you display a union of the results, while I would expect it to be an intersection.

Yes the index is not that large (both history wise and number of sources) at the moment yet. Also the search is done on the titles (not full search of articles). The result is a union, the idea behind this is to create a personalized search feed (find latest relevant content)

This looks great, well done. I see you mentioned the product does its own indexing and crawling. I'm not surprised that was necessary, there doesn't seem to be an easy (free) way to poll major news sources for content.

Does anyone know of a major unbiased news outlet you can do that with? I checked about a year ago. I wasn't able to find such a source that would let you poll their stories for free and with realistic rate limits. I just needed a title and excerpt and was fine linking to the original content for users.

I would give it a try, but there seems to be no information on who runs this.

Since you probably did not fall from the sky just yesterday, why no info on who you are? Why no proud "Made by ..." with a link to your homepage or Twitter or something?

I would not put my searches into a website of an anonymous entity.

Thank you for the feedback, will add a footer link in a minute.

Looks interesting. @golnx, I’m curious what’s the tech stack?

React on the frontend, and java on the backend for both indexing and searching

This is really fast and I like it, but I expected my results to be narrowed as I entered more terms but they weren't.

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