Paywall-free News Aggregator

Aggregated links to paywall-free news articles because reading news was getting frustrating.

Uses filter list of known paywall sites. Checks page for isAccessibleForFree. Looks for paywall vendor script signatures

Fetches hourly on my Macbook using RSS, HN Algolia API, Guardian API. Dedupes with nomic on Ollama.

JSON edition is here: https://freepress.today/api/edition.json Astro front-end.

Use justif and pretext for better typesetting and masonry columns

https://github.com/lyallcooper/justif https://github.com/chenglou/pretext

About 6 hours on Claude Code in two sessions.