A self-hosted news tracker that can run local AI summaries
MuckScraper is a news for people who do not want to rely on someone else’s news feed. It can fetch full article text where possible, then process the material on the user’s own machine. Ollama handles local AI summaries and analysis, so the setup avoids outside AI APIs and keeps the data on the machine running it.
Related articles are grouped into separate stories with . Articles also get bias ratings. A related site, muckscraper.news, shows two daily editions with 20 stories each, analysis, and links back to the original sources.
The code is available as on GitHub.
Key points
- MuckScraper is an news built for .
- It uses Ollama to run local AI summaries and analysis without outside AI APIs.
- It groups related articles into stories using .
- It adds bias ratings and keeps links back to original sources.
- It is relevant for a used as a private news radar.