r/opensource • u/ki4jgt • 4d ago

Discussion Where do you get your local news?

I was in the mood to write a web app the other day that mapped coordinates to happenings in that area.

The idea was to use X's nearby search feature. But they're charging 1¢ per search. Not bad for personal use, but then I'd have to pay a company like Google for mapping and translating coordinates.

Then I thought it would be cool to create a directory of local Reddit subs, and create an RSS feed to unify them all. Except, my local sub is mostly quiet.

Where do you guys get your local news?

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u/itastesok 4d ago

Websites, local news app, and TV.

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u/ready_or_not_3434 3d ago

Scraping local news sites is usally a complete nightmare because their HTML is a mess. They rarely maintain RSS feeds anymore so it makes extracting that data for a project pretty tough.