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Products that do what OpenFOIA – local-first FOIA toolkit with entity graphs does

FOIA toolkit for journalists and citizens.

1. 1OA
   OSwatch – A News Aggregation Site for Open-Source Software▲150

   2016 · oswatch.net

2. 2OP
   Open Paperless – Scan, index, and archive paper documents▲285

   2017 · github.com

3. 3LS
   LinkAce – Self-hosted, FOSS bookmark archive▲227

   2020 · linkace.org

4. 4
   Guardian Open Platform▲89

   Real-time API access to the Guardian's journalism

   2014

5. 5OO
   OpenScan – open-source document scanner app▲200

   2021 · github.com

6. 6LT
   LocalWiki, the open platform for local knowledge▲83

   2015 · localwiki.org

7. 7LS
   Local Sheriff – Browser extension to show PII leaks to third-parties▲79

   2018 · github.com

8. 8WB
   We built an open source tool for journalists to inspect Wikipedia edits▲131

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9. 9OS
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   2020 · github.com

10. 10
    Silk for Journalism▲140

    An all-purpose tool for data journalism

    2015

11. 11DA
    Datastringer, a tool for hacker-journalists▲60

    2014 · bbc-news-labs.github.io

12. 12AN
    A news aggregator for the Python community written in Python/Django▲106

    2019 · github.com

13. 13AH
    Augmented Hacker News Reader▲44

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14. 14HN
    Hacker News CLI, written in Go▲98

    2014 · github.com

15. 15AN
    A New Tool to Understand and Visualize the News▲90

    2019 · newsphere.org

16. 16
    Fosshub▲79

    An open source for free and open source tools

    2015

17. 17AD
    A different interface for reading Hacker News▲36

    2011 · moeffju.github.com

18. 18GA
    GRID, a free database of the world's research organisations▲25

    2015 · grid.ac

19. 19HA
    HacKit, a native macOS Cocoa app for reading Hacker News▲14

    2021 · apps.apple.com

20. 20FA
    Freader, an open source RSS Reader built with Node.js and Angular▲45

    2013 · geekuillaume.github.io

21. 21HC
    Hackertalk – CLI tool that finds Hacker News discussion for any URL▲24

    2014 · github.com

22. 22HF
    Hackernews for Mac▲35

    2013 · whimsyapps.com

23. 23CC
    Community-curated Python news▲14

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24. 24AE
    An Efficient Way to Browse Hacker News▲24

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