News Hub 📰🌍

A full news aggregator in one Actor — world, politics, business, sports, celebrity, AI, tech and crypto headlines from top outlets, plus topic search across worldwide news and a "what's hot right now" trending mode. Headlines, snippets and links, no API key.

Stop juggling a dozen news sites and RSS readers. This Actor pulls curated, syndication-friendly outlets (BBC, The Guardian, NPR, Al Jazeera, ESPN, Variety, Ars Technica, The Verge, CoinDesk and more) and fuses them with GDELT, the open global news-metadata service — into one clean, de-duplicated feed you can query four ways.

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Four modes

Mode	What you get
Headlines	Pick a category — world, politics, business, sports, celebrity, AI, tech, crypto (or all) — and get the latest from every curated outlet in it, merged and de-duplicated. AI/crypto/business/tech can be topped up with GDELT worldwide coverage.
Search	Any keyword or phrase across worldwide news metadata (GDELT) — filter by language, source country and time window.
Hot	What's trending right now — stories many outlets are covering at once (cross-source frequency), or the volume trend for a specific topic.
Digest	One summary row: article counts by category, source and country, plus the trending topics of the moment.

What you get per article

Field	Example
title	"World Cup 2026: England claim third place in 10-goal thriller"
category · source	sports · ESPN
summary	The publisher's own snippet (RSS sources)
image	Article thumbnail (when the feed provides one)
published_at	ISO-8601 UTC
language · country	English · United States (GDELT)
url	Link back to the original article

Examples

All AI headlines right now

{ "mode": "headlines", "category": "ai" }

Everything, every category, merged

{ "mode": "headlines", "category": "all" }

Search worldwide coverage of a topic (last 24h, English)

{ "mode": "search", "query": "\"artificial intelligence\"", "timespan": "1d", "language": "english" }

What's hot across the whole news cycle

{ "mode": "hot" }

Trending coverage of one topic

{ "mode": "hot", "query": "bitcoin", "timespan": "1d" }

Run it on a schedule

Schedule a run every hour to keep a live news table in a sheet or dashboard, power a category news page, monitor a topic or brand across world media, or diff the digest to catch breaking stories the moment coverage spikes.

How it stays clean (sources & policy)

• Headlines + the publisher's own snippet + image + a link back — never the full article body. This is the standard aggregator model (Google News / Feedly / Apple News): facts and attribution with a link to the source, not republished article text.
• GDELT — an open, commercial-friendly global news-metadata service (no key). It returns article metadata (title, domain, date, image, language, country), not content.
• Curated RSS/Atom — hand-picked outlets that publish syndication feeds. Only stable, non-paywalled feeds are included.
• Google News RSS is deliberately excluded — its feed licence forbids commercial use.
• No API key for any mode. All data is public news metadata.

Notes & limitations

• Feeds reflect what each outlet currently publishes; some carry a short excerpt as summary, some none.
• GDELT is rate-limited (about one query every 5 seconds); the Actor paces and retries automatically, so a single run is always fine.
• country uses GDELT source-country codes; language uses GDELT language names (e.g. english).
• Coverage skews English-language by default — widen it with the language filter in search/hot modes.

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Keywords

news aggregator, news API, news scraper, RSS aggregator, world news, global news, breaking news, trending news, hot news, politics news, business news, sports news, celebrity news, entertainment news, AI news, artificial intelligence news, tech news, crypto news, bitcoin news, headlines API, news monitoring, media monitoring, GDELT, news feed, topic search, news by category, no API key.