You can consider using Yahoo! Pipes <http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/>? I have
used this in an HackU event for a similar use case. It was also free of
charge when I last checked.

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Regards,
Varun

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Naval Saini <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are building a News Aggregator on Mobile phones and can use help in one
> of the things we are getting blocked at (bottlenecked at).
>
> Our news app can be broken down in 3 parts,
>
> 1. Delivering news to the user (where we create value with UI/UX),
> 2. Personalizing the news based on user interests (here our alogs create
> value)
> and
> 3. Souring news (RSS feeds) from thousands & ten thousands of blogs.
>
> We have worked considerable on (1) and (2) to create value for the user
> and now need to solve (3). The 3rd part of the problem has been solved many
> times and we dont believe there is much value for us to create here. There
> are many sites offering services - such as syndic8 (for some reason APIs
> are not working though), spinn3r, newsisfree, google feeds, etc; and
> usually are paid.
>
> We are looking to reduce our expenditure. Some possible ways to do that
> would be,
>
> 1. Using an open source software to which we can add a lot of RSS feeds
> (under different topics). The software should ideally have the
> functionality for clustering similar stories in a topic, do some spam
> filtering, be able to arrange topics (based on the interest they have
> generated), etc. We will put this OSS software on AWS, as we dont expect
> fetching and updating feeds to cost sufficient bandwidth.
>
> 2. We are open to other suggestions aswell.
>
> Thanks.
>
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