About this site

This is a distraction-free news reader. It shows the top 3 most recent headlines from each source it follows, with a short excerpt and a link back to the original article — nothing more.

How it works

A crawler periodically fetches each source's own public RSS/Atom feed — the same mechanism used by RSS readers and Google News. It never scrapes full article pages, never stores full article text, and never displays images. Only the headline, a short feed-provided excerpt, the publish date, and a link to the original are kept.

Legal and ethical boundaries

Every source is checked against its own robots.txt before every crawl, using an honestly-identified crawler (contact info included in its user-agent string). Sources whose robots.txt disallows automated access are never crawled, regardless of whether a feed URL technically exists. Requests to any one domain are rate-limited. See the Sourcespage for the full, current list of what's crawled.

Contact

If you publish one of the sources shown here and would like it removed, or have any other concern, please get in touch at waqashq@gmail.com.