Clean up Google News links for easier sharing and analysis

Pulls Google News RSS links, strips out the tracking clutter, and gives you clean, direct article URLs.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each article entry.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Web Scraping & Data Collection
Connects
Google News

The problem it solves

Google News RSS links come wrapped in tracking codes that make them messy to share, store, or feed into any other tool. Cleaning them up by hand for every article you want to use is tedious and easy to get wrong. You end up with a list of links nobody wants to click.

Who it fits

Content aggregators, journalists, and researchers who need clean article links from Google News.

How it works

  1. Fetches the latest articles from a Google News RSS feed for your chosen region and language
  2. Limits the batch to a manageable number of articles
  3. Pulls the encoded link from each entry
  4. Decodes it back into a clean, direct article URL
  5. Compiles the final list of clean, shareable links
What you get

Clean article links ready to share or analyze

You get a list of clean, direct article links pulled straight from Google News, with the tracking clutter already stripped out.

What you get

A list of clean, direct article URLs pulled from Google News, ready to share or feed into another process.

What you need

No paid accounts are required; it works directly with public Google News RSS feeds.

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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