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TrendRadar

by sansan0

TrendRadar collects trending news and RSS feeds from many platforms, filters them by your keywords or with AI, and sends the results to your phone or inbox. It is for keeping track of topics, brands and public opinion without trawling through lots of sites.

Worth a lookEstablished, with a few things to check (listed below).

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Stars
63.2k +11 a day
Licence
GPL-3.0
Runs on
A small server
Setup
Moderate
Language
Python
Age
546 days

What you can do with it

  • Monitor trending topics and RSS feeds for chosen keywords and receive alerts on WeChat, Telegram, Slack, email, ntfy or Bark
  • Get AI-written briefings, translations and sentiment or trend analysis of the news you follow
  • Connect it to an AI assistant through MCP to ask questions about the collected news in plain language

Make money with it

A freelancer could offer paid niche newsletters or monitoring reports for clients, built from the filtered and summarised trend data.

An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.

Ways a business could use it

  • Track mentions of your brand, competitors and industry news and get alerts, instead of paying for a media monitoring service
  • Send a daily AI-summarised news digest to your team or clients to save research time

Can you use it commercially?

Free to use. Anything you distribute that includes it must be open-sourced under the same licence.

Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.

Getting it running

It can be deployed with Docker, run locally with Python, or forked to run on GitHub or Cloudflare, with settings kept in configuration files.

Follow the official instructions in the project README.

Things to check

  • AI features need an API key from an AI provider, which may cost money
  • Relies on the third-party newsnow API for platform data, so pushing alerts too often is discouraged
  • Documentation is mainly in Chinese and the data sources are mostly Chinese platforms
  • GPL-3.0 licence requires derivative works to stay open source

Checked 27 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.

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