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24 alternatives to Py package to collect normalized news from (almost) any website

Programmatically collect normalized news from (almost) any website. - kotartemiy/newscatcher

This Python package extracts and normalizes news content from websites across the internet. It's designed for developers and data analysts who need to gather structured news data from diverse sources. The tool… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Py package to collect normalized news from (almost) any website launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Programmatically collect normalized news from (almost) any website. - newscatcher/README.md at master · kotartemiy/newscatcher

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    If Google News had a Python library. Contribute to kotartemiy/pygooglenews development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Hacker News lookalike written in Python/Django, powering https://news.python.sc - sebst/pythonic-news

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, It will be more of a "How I released my API without managing a website, servers, users, and payments. With 0$ up-front cost" Over the past year, I have come up with a plan of how I could release my own product without having to deal with managing users and/or dealing with payment processing. It is a 3 steps procedure: 1. Make an API that solves a problem 2. Deploy it with a serverless architecture 3. Distribute through an API Marketplace That took me about 2-3 days to develop an API using Flask, deploy it via Zappa on AWS, and release through RapidAPI. Source code of API:…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Pipfeed▲79

    API to extract news articles data & summarize using AI

    2021 · pipfeed.com · its alternatives →

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    Nutgrafe▲242

    The news, reduced to what matters.

    Jan 2026 · nutgrafe.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a system that monitors ~200,000 news RSS feeds in near real-time and clusters related articles to show how stories spread across the web. It uses Snowflake’s Arctic model for embeddings and HNSW for fast similarity search. Each “story cluster” shows who published first, how fast it propagated, and how the narrative evolved as more outlets picked it up. Would love feedback on the architecture, scaling approach, and any ways to make the clusters more accurate or useful. Live demo: https://yandori.io/news-flow/

    Nov 2025 · yandori.io · its alternatives →

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    RSS feeds for arbitrary websites, using CSS selectors.

    2021 · feed-me-up-scotty.vincenttunru.com · its alternatives →

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    Crawly▲606

    Never write another web scraper

    2016 · crawly.diffbot.com · its alternatives →

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    Diffbot▲272

    Extract content from articles, products, videos and more

    2015 · diffbot.com · its alternatives →

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    Feedful▲402

    Tweet deck styled newsreader - Reddit, PH, Github, YT

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Web scraping made simple — extract data with our free Chrome extension and powerful cloud platform. Turn websites into structured data at scale, via dashboard or API.

    2019 · simplescraper.io · its alternatives →

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    Extract boilerplate-free text from news links at scale

    2021 · extractorapi.com · its alternatives →

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    A Powerful Spider(Web Crawler) System in Python. Contribute to binux/pyspider development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm excited to showcase Kreuzberg! Kreuzberg is a modern Python library built from the ground up with async/await, type hints, and optimized I/O handling. It provides a unified interface for extracting text from documents (PDFs, images, office files) without external API dependencies. Key technical features: - Built with modern Python best practices (async/await, type hints, functional-first) - Optimized async I/O with anyio for multi-loop compatibility - Smart worker process pool for CPU-bound tasks (OCR, doc conversion) - Efficient batch processing with concurrent…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Nutgrafe▲107

    Every article summarized in one short paragraph.

    Mar 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Automatically extract body content (and other cool stuff) from an html document - ageitgey/node-unfluff

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, Artem and Maksym from NewsCatcher here. Some of you know us as we started six years ago as two freshly graduated economics students who decided to build the best news API product. We started NewsCatcher thinking the market for news APIs was so big that we could build a self-serve platform and get millions of $29 users. Obviously, it was a wrong assumption. We pivoted to serve enterprises and had success with it. But we are hackers at heart, and we want to serve hackers. We haven't used our Launch HN yet, so consider this our smoke test. We're looking for feedback and power users…

    May 2026 · platform.newscatcherapi.com · its alternatives →

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    AIScraper: The Future of Web Scraping Today.

    2024 · aiscraper.co · its alternatives →

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    highly customizable news collector. Contribute to egcodes/aristotle development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn any webpage into structured data using LLMs. Contribute to mishushakov/llm-scraper development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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