Local Search America has a new tool! Local News Feed gathers RSS feed items from 1003 local news sources across the US and aggregates them into one state-browsable, keyword-searchable bundle with associated topic pages.
Adding Topic Pages To My Local News Aggregator
I’ve been spending the day adding topic pages to my local news aggregator — these are pages where articles are filtered for keywords clustered around a certain topic. This is plain keyword filtering, so you will get the occasional mechanically-produced goofy result, but I’ve found them useful and mostly on-topic. You can browse the topic […]
Building a Local News Aggregator With 1000+ Sources
Last week I went poking around and found a local news sources dataset from the Media and Democracy Project. I used that as a quarry and mined it for RSS feeds with a couple of Google Apps Scripts. I’m not finished with that dataset but so far I’ve come up with 1008 verified RSS feeds for local news sources in America.