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# RSS News Digest
Fetches articles from RSS/Atom feeds, downloads full article content, stores everything in SQLite with URL-based deduplication, and outputs a JSON digest to stdout. Optionally generates per-article summaries via a local Ollama model.
Fetches articles from RSS/Atom feeds, downloads full article content, stores everything in SQLite with URL-based deduplication, and outputs a JSON digest to stdout. When Ollama is configured, each article is automatically summarized during fetch and the summary is stored in the database.
HTTP requests use automatic retries with exponential backoff for transient errors (429/5xx), browser-like headers to avoid 403 blocks, and rate limiting between content fetches.
## Setup
Install [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/) (a fast Python package manager):
```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
```
`run.sh` handles Python and dependency installation automatically — no manual venv or `pip install` needed.
For AI-powered article summaries, install [Ollama](https://ollama.com) and pull a model:
```bash
ollama pull qwen3
ollama pull kamekichi128/qwen3-4b-instruct-2507
```
## Configuration
@@ -22,10 +28,11 @@ Edit `config.json` to add feeds and adjust settings:
{
"settings": {
"hours_lookback": 24,
"retention_days": 30
"retention_days": 30,
"max_articles_per_feed": 10
},
"ollama": {
"model": "qwen3",
"model": "kamekichi128/qwen3-4b-instruct-2507",
"prompt": "Summarize the following news article in 2-3 concise sentences:"
},
"feeds": [
@@ -41,39 +48,50 @@ Edit `config.json` to add feeds and adjust settings:
- **hours_lookback** — only include articles published within this many hours
- **retention_days** — auto-delete articles older than this from the database
- **ollama.model** — Ollama model name for digest summaries
- **ollama.prompt** — system prompt sent to the model
- **max_articles_per_feed** — limit how many articles are saved per feed per run (0 = unlimited)
- **ollama.model** — Ollama model name for article summaries (generated during fetch)
- **ollama.prompt** — prompt sent to the model for each article
- Removing the `ollama` key disables summarization; articles are still fetched normally
- **feeds[].enabled** — set to `false` to skip a feed without removing it
## Usage
```bash
# Fetch feeds and print recent articles (default fields: id, title, url)
python main.py
# Fetch feeds and print recent articles (default fields: id, title, url, published_date, fetched_date, feed_name)
./run.sh
# Verbose mode (logs to stderr)
python main.py -v
./run.sh -v
# Override lookback window to 48 hours
python main.py --hours 48
./run.sh --hours 48
# Include more fields in output
python main.py -f id,title,url,description,published_date
./run.sh -f id,title,url,description,published_date
# Include article summaries in output (requires ollama config)
./run.sh -f id,title,url,summary
# Include full article content in output
python main.py -f id,title,url,content
./run.sh -f id,title,url,content
# Review stored articles without fetching new ones
python main.py --no-fetch
./run.sh --no-fetch
# Only purge old articles (no fetching or output)
python main.py --purge-only -v
./run.sh --purge-only -v
# Generate AI summaries for specific article IDs
python main.py --digest 1,3,7
# Smoke test: full pipeline (fetch 1 article from first enabled feed + summarize)
./run.sh --test
# Test feed fetching only (1 article from first enabled feed)
./run.sh --test feed
# Test Ollama summarization only (uses hardcoded articles)
./run.sh --test summary
# Custom config and database paths
python main.py -c my_config.json -d my_news.db
./run.sh -c my_config.json -d my_news.db
```
## Examples
@@ -81,14 +99,15 @@ python main.py -c my_config.json -d my_news.db
### Fetch feeds and list articles
```
$ python main.py -v
$ ./run.sh -v
2026-02-21 22:41:44 DEBUG Ollama summarization enabled (model: qwen3)
2026-02-21 22:41:44 INFO Feed 'BBC News': 35 new articles (of 36 within lookback)
2026-02-21 22:41:54 INFO Feed 'NY Times': 20 new articles (of 20 within lookback)
2026-02-21 22:41:57 INFO Feed 'Hacker News': 20 new articles (of 20 within lookback)
2026-02-21 22:42:08 INFO Feed '联合早报 中国': 24 new articles (of 24 within lookback)
2026-02-21 22:42:23 INFO Feed '澎湃新闻 热点': 15 new articles (of 15 within lookback)
2026-02-21 22:42:49 INFO Feed '36氪 热榜': 8 new articles (of 8 within lookback)
2026-02-21 22:42:59 INFO Total new articles saved: 122
2026-02-21 22:43:54 INFO Feed 'NY Times': 10 new articles (of 10 within lookback)
2026-02-21 22:44:57 INFO Feed 'Hacker News': 10 new articles (of 10 within lookback)
2026-02-21 22:46:08 INFO Feed '联合早报 中国': 10 new articles (of 10 within lookback)
2026-02-21 22:47:23 INFO Feed '澎湃新闻 热点': 10 new articles (of 10 within lookback)
2026-02-21 22:48:49 INFO Feed '36氪 热榜': 8 new articles (of 8 within lookback)
2026-02-21 22:48:59 INFO Total new articles saved: 83
[
{"id": 1, "title": "Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown", "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/..."},
{"id": 2, "title": "Trump says he will increase his new global tariffs to 15%", "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/..."},
@@ -99,7 +118,7 @@ $ python main.py -v
### Review stored articles without fetching
```
$ python main.py --no-fetch -f id,title,feed_name
$ ./run.sh --no-fetch -f id,title,feed_name
[
{"id": 1, "title": "Iran students stage first large anti-government protests...", "feed_name": "BBC News"},
{"id": 79, "title": "韩国二次电池技术水平被中国反超", "feed_name": "联合早报 中国"},
@@ -108,32 +127,6 @@ $ python main.py --no-fetch -f id,title,feed_name
]
```
### Generate AI summaries for specific articles
```
$ python main.py --digest 1,79,117
[
{
"id": 1,
"title": "Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown",
"url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/...",
"summary": "Iranian students have held large-scale anti-government protests across multiple cities, marking the first such demonstrations since a deadly crackdown last month. Protesters chanted anti-regime slogans, with clashes reported between demonstrators and government supporters."
},
{
"id": 79,
"title": "韩国二次电池技术水平被中国反超",
"url": "https://www.zaobao.com/news/china/story20260222-8614291",
"summary": "韩国官方报告指出中国在二次电池技术领域已反超韩国2024年技术水平评估显示中国领先韩国0.2年,且中国追赶美国的势头明显。"
},
{
"id": 117,
"title": "忍无可忍Ilya宫斗奥特曼微软CTO爆内幕全因嫉妒下属太优秀",
"url": "https://www.36kr.com/p/3693861726826112",
"summary": "该文章描述了OpenAI内部的权力斗争事件称微软CTO披露首席科学家Ilya因嫉妒下属取得突破联合董事会罢免了CEO奥特曼引发高管集体离职。"
}
]
```
## Output
Default output (JSON array to stdout):
@@ -145,12 +138,12 @@ Default output (JSON array to stdout):
]
```
Digest mode (`--digest`):
With summary field (`-f id,title,url,summary`):
```json
[
{"id": 1, "title": "Article Title", "url": "https://example.com/article", "summary": "AI-generated summary..."},
{"id": 3, "title": "Another Article", "url": "https://example.com/other", "summary": "AI-generated summary..."}
{"id": 2, "title": "Another Article", "url": "https://example.com/other", "summary": "AI-generated summary..."}
]
```
@@ -158,4 +151,11 @@ Digest mode (`--digest`):
Articles are stored in `news_digest.db` (SQLite) in the current directory by default. The database is created automatically on first run. Articles older than `retention_days` are purged at the start of each fetch run. Duplicate URLs are ignored via a UNIQUE constraint.
Each article stores metadata from the RSS feed (title, description, published date, author, etc.) plus the full article content fetched from the article URL. Content is extracted as plain text using BeautifulSoup. Some sites (e.g. paywalled or bot-protected) may return 403 errors — in those cases the content field is left empty and the RSS description is used as a fallback for summaries.
Each article stores metadata from the RSS feed (title, description, published date, author, etc.) plus the full article content fetched from the article URL. Content is extracted as plain text using BeautifulSoup.
HTTP requests are made through a shared `requests.Session` with:
- **Automatic retries** (up to 3 attempts with exponential backoff) for 429/5xx errors
- **Browser-like headers** (User-Agent, Accept) to reduce 403 rejections
- **Rate limiting** (Ollama latency between fetches when configured; 1-second fallback otherwise)
Some sites (e.g. paywalled or bot-protected) may still return errors — in those cases the content field is left empty and the RSS description is used as a fallback for summaries.

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{
"settings": {
"hours_lookback": 24,
"retention_days": 30
"retention_days": 30,
"max_articles_per_feed": 10
},
"ollama": {
"model": "kamekichi128/qwen3-4b-instruct-2507:latest",
"prompt": "Summarize the following news article in 2-3 concise sentences:"
},
"feeds": [
{
"url": "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml",
"name": "BBC News",
"category": "World",
"enabled": true
},
{
"url": "https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml",
"name": "NY Times",
"category": "World",
"enabled": true
},
{
"url": "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml",
"name": "BBC Tech",
"category": "Tech",
"enabled": false
},
{
"url": "https://hnrss.org/frontpage",
"name": "Hacker News",

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""RSS News Digest — fetch feeds, store articles with full content in SQLite, optionally summarize via Ollama."""
"""RSS News Digest — fetch feeds, store articles with full content in SQLite, and summarize via Ollama during fetch.
Recommended: run via ./run.sh, which uses `uv` to handle dependencies
automatically (no manual venv or pip install needed).
When an `ollama` key is present in config.json, each newly fetched article is
automatically summarized and the result is stored in the database. Ollama
latency provides natural rate limiting between HTTP requests; when Ollama is
not configured, a 1-second sleep is used instead.
Uses a requests.Session with automatic retries and browser-like headers to
handle transient HTTP errors (429/5xx). A configurable per-feed article cap
helps avoid overwhelming upstream servers.
Use ``--test`` to smoke-test feed fetching and/or Ollama summarization without
writing to the database.
"""
import argparse
import json
import logging
import sqlite3
import sys
import time
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from pathlib import Path
from time import mktime
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
from urllib.error import URLError
import feedparser
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
from urllib3.util.retry import Retry
logger = logging.getLogger("news_digest")
# Hardcoded test articles for --test summary (one English, one Chinese)
_TEST_ARTICLES = [
{
"title": "Global Semiconductor Shortage Eases as New Factories Come Online",
"content": (
"The global chip shortage that disrupted industries from automotive to "
"consumer electronics is finally showing signs of relief. Major semiconductor "
"manufacturers including TSMC, Samsung, and Intel have begun production at new "
"fabrication plants in Arizona, Texas, and Japan. Industry analysts project that "
"global chip capacity will increase by 15% over the next 18 months, potentially "
"leading to a supply surplus in certain categories. The shift has already begun "
"to impact pricing, with memory chip costs dropping 12% in the last quarter."
),
},
{
"title": "中国新能源汽车出口量首次突破年度600万辆大关",
"content": (
"据中国汽车工业协会最新数据2025年中国新能源汽车出口量首次突破600万辆"
"同比增长38%。比亚迪、上汽、蔚来等品牌在东南亚、欧洲和南美市场持续扩张。"
"分析人士指出,中国在电池技术和供应链方面的优势使其产品在全球市场具有较强"
"竞争力,但欧盟加征的反补贴关税可能对未来增长构成挑战。"
),
},
]
def _build_session() -> requests.Session:
"""Create a requests session with automatic retries and browser-like headers."""
session = requests.Session()
retry = Retry(
total=3,
backoff_factor=1, # 1s, 2s, 4s between retries
status_forcelist=[429, 500, 502, 503, 504],
respect_retry_after_header=True,
)
adapter = HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retry)
session.mount("http://", adapter)
session.mount("https://", adapter)
session.headers.update({
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) "
"AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
"Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
"Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
"Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
})
return session
_session = _build_session()
def load_config(path: str) -> dict:
with open(path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
@@ -33,6 +101,7 @@ def init_db(db_path: str) -> sqlite3.Connection:
title TEXT,
description TEXT,
content TEXT,
summary TEXT,
published_date TEXT,
fetched_date TEXT NOT NULL,
feed_name TEXT,
@@ -41,11 +110,6 @@ def init_db(db_path: str) -> sqlite3.Connection:
author TEXT
)
""")
# Migrate: add content column if missing (existing DBs)
try:
conn.execute("ALTER TABLE articles ADD COLUMN content TEXT")
except sqlite3.OperationalError:
pass
conn.commit()
return conn
@@ -65,15 +129,12 @@ def is_within_lookback(dt: datetime | None, hours: int) -> bool:
return dt >= cutoff
_USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)"
def fetch_feed(url: str) -> list[dict]:
try:
req = Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": _USER_AGENT})
with urlopen(req, timeout=30) as resp:
raw = resp.read()
except (URLError, OSError) as e:
resp = _session.get(url, timeout=30)
resp.raise_for_status()
raw = resp.content
except requests.RequestException as e:
logger.warning("Failed to fetch %s: %s", url, e)
return []
@@ -86,10 +147,10 @@ def fetch_feed(url: str) -> list[dict]:
def fetch_content(url: str) -> str | None:
try:
req = Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": _USER_AGENT})
with urlopen(req, timeout=15) as resp:
html = resp.read()
except (URLError, OSError) as e:
resp = _session.get(url, timeout=15)
resp.raise_for_status()
html = resp.content
except requests.RequestException as e:
logger.warning("Failed to fetch content from %s: %s", url, e)
return None
@@ -157,15 +218,8 @@ def purge_old_articles(conn: sqlite3.Connection, days: int) -> int:
def get_recent_articles(conn: sqlite3.Connection, hours: int) -> list[dict]:
cutoff = (datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(hours=hours)).isoformat()
rows = conn.execute(
"SELECT * FROM articles WHERE fetched_date >= ? ORDER BY id", (cutoff,)
).fetchall()
return [dict(r) for r in rows]
def get_articles_by_ids(conn: sqlite3.Connection, ids: list[int]) -> list[dict]:
placeholders = ",".join("?" for _ in ids)
rows = conn.execute(
f"SELECT * FROM articles WHERE id IN ({placeholders}) ORDER BY id", ids
"SELECT * FROM articles WHERE published_date >= ? OR published_date IS NULL ORDER BY id",
(cutoff,),
).fetchall()
return [dict(r) for r in rows]
@@ -194,16 +248,101 @@ def generate_summary(title: str, description: str | None, content: str | None, m
return None
def _run_test(mode: str, config: dict) -> None:
"""Run smoke tests for feed fetching, summarization, or both.
All JSON results go to stdout; status messages go to stderr.
"""
if mode not in ("", "feed", "summary"):
print(f"Unknown test mode: {mode!r} (use 'feed', 'summary', or omit)", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
feed_article = None # may be populated by feed test for use in full mode
# --- Feed test ---
if mode in ("", "feed"):
print("=== Feed test ===", file=sys.stderr)
feeds = config.get("feeds", [])
enabled = [f for f in feeds if f.get("enabled", True)]
if not enabled:
print("FAIL: no enabled feeds in config", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
feed_cfg = enabled[0]
url = feed_cfg["url"]
name = feed_cfg.get("name", url)
print(f"Fetching feed: {name} ({url})", file=sys.stderr)
entries = fetch_feed(url)
if not entries:
print("FAIL: no entries returned from feed", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
entry = entries[0]
link = entry.get("link", "")
title = entry.get("title", "")
print(f"Fetching content: {link}", file=sys.stderr)
content = fetch_content(link) if link else None
result = {
"feed": name,
"title": title,
"url": link,
"content_length": len(content) if content else 0,
}
print(json.dumps(result, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2))
if content:
print("PASS: feed fetch", file=sys.stderr)
feed_article = {"title": title, "content": content}
else:
print("FAIL: could not fetch article content", file=sys.stderr)
if mode == "feed":
sys.exit(1)
# --- Summary test ---
if mode in ("", "summary"):
print("=== Summary test ===", file=sys.stderr)
ollama_cfg = config.get("ollama")
if not ollama_cfg:
print("FAIL: no 'ollama' key in config", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
model = ollama_cfg.get("model", "kamekichi128/qwen3-4b-instruct-2507")
prompt = ollama_cfg.get("prompt", "Summarize the following news article in 2-3 concise sentences:")
# Build test inputs: hardcoded articles + fetched article (full mode only)
articles = list(_TEST_ARTICLES)
if feed_article:
articles.append(feed_article)
all_ok = True
for article in articles:
print(f"Summarizing: {article['title']}", file=sys.stderr)
summary = generate_summary(article["title"], None, article["content"], model, prompt)
result = {"title": article["title"], "summary": summary}
print(json.dumps(result, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2))
if not summary:
all_ok = False
if all_ok:
print("PASS: summary", file=sys.stderr)
else:
print("FAIL: one or more summaries failed", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="RSS News Digest")
parser.add_argument("-c", "--config", default="config.json", help="Config file path")
parser.add_argument("-d", "--database", default="news_digest.db", help="SQLite database path")
parser.add_argument("--hours", type=int, help="Override lookback hours")
parser.add_argument("-f", "--fields", default="id,title,url", help="Comma-separated output fields")
parser.add_argument("--digest", help="Article IDs to summarize (comma-separated, e.g. 1,3,7)")
parser.add_argument("-f", "--fields", default="id,title,url,published_date,fetched_date,feed_name", help="Comma-separated output fields")
parser.add_argument("--purge-only", action="store_true", help="Only purge old articles")
parser.add_argument("--no-fetch", action="store_true", help="Skip fetching feeds, only query stored articles")
parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true", help="Debug logging to stderr")
parser.add_argument("--test", nargs="?", const="", metavar="MODE",
help="Smoke test: 'feed', 'summary', or omit for full pipeline")
args = parser.parse_args()
logging.basicConfig(
@@ -218,39 +357,19 @@ def main():
sys.exit(1)
config = load_config(str(config_path))
# Handle --test before any DB operations
if args.test is not None:
_run_test(args.test, config)
return
settings = config.get("settings", {})
hours_lookback = args.hours or settings.get("hours_lookback", 24)
retention_days = settings.get("retention_days", 30)
max_per_feed = settings.get("max_articles_per_feed", 0)
conn = init_db(args.database)
# Digest mode — summarize specified articles, then exit
if args.digest:
ollama_cfg = config.get("ollama", {})
model = ollama_cfg.get("model", "qwen3")
prompt = ollama_cfg.get("prompt", "Summarize the following news article in 2-3 concise sentences:")
ids = [int(x.strip()) for x in args.digest.split(",")]
articles = get_articles_by_ids(conn, ids)
if not articles:
logger.warning("No articles found for IDs: %s", ids)
results = []
for article in articles:
logger.debug("Summarizing article %d: %s", article["id"], article["title"])
summary = generate_summary(article["title"], article.get("description"), article.get("content"), model, prompt)
results.append({
"id": article["id"],
"title": article["title"],
"url": article["url"],
"summary": summary,
})
print(json.dumps(results, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2))
conn.close()
return
# Purge old articles
deleted = purge_old_articles(conn, retention_days)
if deleted:
@@ -266,6 +385,16 @@ def main():
feeds = config.get("feeds", [])
total_new = 0
# Read ollama config once for summarization during fetch
ollama_cfg = config.get("ollama")
if ollama_cfg:
ollama_model = ollama_cfg.get("model", "kamekichi128/qwen3-4b-instruct-2507")
ollama_prompt = ollama_cfg.get("prompt", "Summarize the following news article in 2-3 concise sentences:")
logger.debug("Ollama summarization enabled (model: %s)", ollama_model)
else:
ollama_model = ollama_prompt = None
logger.debug("Ollama not configured; skipping summarization")
for feed_cfg in feeds:
if not feed_cfg.get("enabled", True):
logger.debug("Skipping disabled feed: %s", feed_cfg.get("name"))
@@ -297,18 +426,37 @@ def main():
"author": entry.get("author"),
})
# Cap articles per feed to avoid flooding the DB and downstream fetches
if max_per_feed > 0:
articles = articles[:max_per_feed]
new_urls = save_articles(conn, articles)
total_new += len(new_urls)
logger.info("Feed '%s': %d new articles (of %d within lookback)",
feed_cfg.get("name", url), len(new_urls), len(articles))
# Fetch full content for newly inserted articles
for article_url in new_urls:
# Fetch full content and optionally summarize newly inserted articles
for i, article_url in enumerate(new_urls):
if i > 0 and not ollama_cfg:
time.sleep(1) # rate limit when Ollama isn't providing natural delay
logger.debug("Fetching content: %s", article_url)
content = fetch_content(article_url)
if content:
conn.execute("UPDATE articles SET content = ? WHERE url = ?", (content, article_url))
logger.debug("Saved content (%d chars) for %s", len(content), article_url)
summary = None
if ollama_cfg:
row = conn.execute(
"SELECT title, description FROM articles WHERE url = ?", (article_url,)
).fetchone()
if row:
summary = generate_summary(row["title"], row["description"], content, ollama_model, ollama_prompt)
if summary:
logger.debug("Generated summary for %s", article_url)
else:
if i > 0:
time.sleep(1) # fallback rate limit on summary failure
conn.execute(
"UPDATE articles SET content = ?, summary = ? WHERE url = ?",
(content, summary, article_url),
)
conn.commit()
logger.info("Total new articles saved: %d", total_new)

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feedparser>=6.0.0
beautifulsoup4>=4.12.0
requests>=2.31.0
ollama>=0.4.0