An AI-powered daily news summarization system based on Claude AI, supporting multi-domain classification (Politics, Finance, Entertainment, Health, Sports).

• 📰 Multi-source RSS News Collection - Automatically collects news from Reuters, Politico, WSJ, ESPN, and other major US media sources
• 🤖 AI-Powered Summarization - Uses Claude API to generate professional news summaries
• 📊 Multi-Domain Classification - Supports 5 built-in domains: Politics, Finance, Entertainment, Health, Sports
• 🔍 Custom Domains - Add custom news domains with AI-recommended RSS feeds
• ⏰ Time-based Filtering - Morning briefing (previous day 6 PM - today 6 AM), Evening briefing (today 6 AM - 6 PM), and Search news (last 6 hours)
• 📅 History Management - Automatically saves historical summaries with separate daily and search records
• 💾 Smart Caching - Caches daily briefings to avoid redundant API calls
• 📊 Progress Tracking - Real-time progress bar during summary generation
• 📄 Export Functionality - Export summaries as Markdown or PDF
• 🎨 Modern UI - Beautiful responsive design with mobile support
• ⚙️ Detail Level Control - Adjustable summary detail level (concise/standard/detailed)
• 🔄 Scheduled Tasks - Automatic daily briefings at 6:00 AM and 6:00 PM

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create a .env file:

# Windows
copy .env.example .env

# Linux/Mac
cp .env.example .env

Edit the .env file and add your Anthropic API key:

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

💡 Get API key: https://console.anthropic.com/

Windows:

python main.py
# Or double-click start.bat

Linux/Mac:

python main.py
# Or
chmod +x start.sh
./start.sh

Open your browser and visit: http://localhost:8000

1. Select Briefing Type: Morning Briefing (previous day 6 PM - today 6 AM), Evening Briefing (today 6 AM - 6 PM), or Search News (last 6 hours)
2. Select Domain: Choose a specific domain or "All Domains"
3. Adjust Detail Level: Select concise, standard, or detailed summary length
4. Click "Generate Summary": The system will automatically collect news and generate AI summaries
5. View History: Click "View History Daily Briefings" or "View Search Records" to browse previous summaries
6. Export: Export summaries as Markdown or PDF files
7. Custom Domains: Add custom news domains with AI-recommended RSS feeds

• Backend: FastAPI + Python 3.11+
• AI Model: Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku
• Frontend: HTML5 + CSS3 + Vanilla JavaScript
• Database: SQLite
• RSS Parsing: feedparser
• Content Processing: BeautifulSoup4
• Task Scheduling: APScheduler
• Export: markdown, reportlab

ai-newsketcher/
├── main.py              # Backend main file (all logic)
├── index.html           # Frontend page
├── requirements.txt     # Python dependencies
├── .env                 # Environment variables (create this)
├── .env.example         # Environment variable example
├── news_brief.db        # SQLite database (auto-created)
└── README.md            # This file

You can modify RSS feeds in the RSS_FEEDS dictionary in main.py:

RSS_FEEDS = {
    "politics": ["https://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/politicsNews"],
    "finance": ["https://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/businessNews"],
    # ... more sources
}

Default uses claude-3-haiku-20240307 (low cost, fast)

You can modify it in the summarize_news function in main.py:

model="claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022"  # Higher quality but more expensive

You can add custom news domains through the UI:

1. Click "Custom Domain" button
2. Enter domain name (e.g., "technology", "crypto")
3. Click "Let AI Recommend Sources" to get AI-suggested RSS feeds
4. Add the domain with selected feeds

1. API Costs: Each summary generation calls Claude API, monitor your usage
2. Network Requirements: Must be able to access RSS feeds and Anthropic API
3. First Run: May take 30-60 seconds to generate summaries (depends on news quantity)
4. Caching: Daily briefings are cached to avoid redundant API calls for the same day/type/domain

• Check if API key in .env file is correct
• Verify network connection is normal
• Check if API quota is sufficient

• Some RSS feeds may require proxy access
• Check network connection
• Try replacing with other RSS feeds

• Confirm service is started (check terminal output)
• Confirm port 8000 is not occupied
• Try accessing http://127.0.0.1:8000

• ✅ Scheduled tasks for automatic daily briefings (APScheduler)
• ✅ Smart caching mechanism
• ✅ Progress tracking with real-time progress bar
• ✅ Export functionality (Markdown/PDF)
• ✅ Custom domain support with AI-recommended RSS feeds
• ✅ Detail level control (concise/standard/detailed)
• ✅ History management (daily briefings and search records)
• ✅ Delete functionality for history records

MIT License

• Anthropic - Claude AI
• RSS feed providers: Reuters, Politico, WSJ, ESPN, CBS Sports, Variety, STAT News, etc.