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WorldLaborNews Anonymous 26-04-25 15:20:38 No.29372

I've had this idea for a while of a piece of software that aggregates Labor News from all of the world, and allows the user to sort them by country, type of news (labor strike, union busting, laws passed/repealed, settlements reached, cooperative formed, etc.) It would do this for each and every country and do this only for News platforms that are written from a pro-labor perspective (so you don't end up with a bunch of RadioFreeAsia type crap).

Is this a naive idea? I know people already use RSS feeds for this kind of thing but I'm thinking of something a little more specific.

Anonymous 26-04-25 15:44:56 No.29373

This is a pretty good idea, might be willing to help some.
The tricky bit would probably be scraping (beautifulsoup etc.)
Many socialist news sites are not going to have an RSS feed.
You would probably also need volunteers to do tagging.

As an alternative you could have something like the main view of https://lobste.rs
But with a bot automatically collecting certain news articles, by scraping etc.
Once again with volunteers tagging them, or optionally even submitting stories.

Anonymous 28-04-25 09:04:05 No.29378

This just got more real for /tech/
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/#are-more-equal-than-others

Anonymous 28-04-25 12:26:18 No.29379

RSS and Atom feed if you only want per-country categorization, and each site is country-specific
I guess more granular organization would be even trickier, and obviously require DIY software
You would probably have to manually organize recent news articles according to the "news type"

Anonymous 29-04-25 00:54:02 No.29403

If you actually wanted to make this the first step would be to gather pro-labor news sources to scrape. A minimal viable program would just scrape and output an RSS feed.

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