Scrape a news site with no RSS feed and summarize it with AI

Checks a news site for new posts every week and saves an AI summary and keywords for each one to a database.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each new post found.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

flowchart TD trig(["weekly scheduled check"]):::trigtime s0["scan site for new posts"]:::task s1[["pull full article text"]]:::mi s2["AI writes summary and keywords"]:::task s3[("save record to database")]:::store trig --> s0 s0 -->|"one per each new post found"| s1 s1 --> s2 s2 --> s3 out[/"database record per new article"/]:::out pay{{"no manual site checking needed"}}:::pay s3 --> out out --> pay classDef task fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#34b8f0,color:#2c2a29 classDef svc fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#7c8795,color:#2c2a29 classDef mi fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29,stroke-width:2px classDef human fill:#fff,stroke:#0079a8,color:#0079a8 classDef store fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29 classDef trig fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigtime fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigdata fill:#8ad4f5,stroke:#0079a8,color:#06314c,font-weight:bold classDef gate fill:#fff,stroke:#e8a23d,color:#6b4708,font-weight:bold classDef out fill:#1f9d6b,stroke:#167a53,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef pay fill:#06314c,stroke:#021f33,color:#fff
Starts itA stepRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Reporting & AnalyticsWeb Scraping & Data CollectionResearch & Market Intelligence
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NocoDBOpenAI

The problem it solves

Your industry news site doesn't offer a feed to follow, so someone has to keep checking it manually for new stories. Even when you catch a new post, pulling out the important points and technical terms takes extra time you don't have.

Who it fits

Teams that track a specific industry news source and want new stories summarized without checking the site by hand.

How it works

  1. A weekly schedule kicks off the check
  2. The system scans the site for newly published posts
  3. Each new post is opened and its full text pulled
  4. AI writes a summary and pulls out key technical terms
  5. The summary and keywords are saved to a database
What you get

Industry stories surfaced without checking the site

You get a weekly summary of new stories from the industry site you follow, with the key terms pulled out for you.

What you get

A database record for each new article with a summary and its key terms, ready to browse or search.

What you need

An OpenAI API key and a NocoDB database.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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