# I automated my news discovery with one tool, and now I spend half the time finding stories

DevFeed: [I automated my news discovery with one tool, and now I spend half the time finding stories](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/i-automated-my-news-discovery-with-one-tool-and-now-i-spend-half-the-time-finding-stories-9010.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.xda-developers.com/i-automated-news-discovery-self-hosted-tool/>)

Author: Dhruv Bhutani

Published: 2026-05-12T19:30:22Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [XDA - RSS](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/xda-rss.md>)

Topics: [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rss-feed.md>), [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>)

Tags: [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browser.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [rss](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rss.md>), [self-hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/self-hosting.md>), [software-and-services](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-and-services.md>), [tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tool.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes using the open-source HTML2RSS app to automate news discovery. It creates RSS feeds from web pages, using scraping with browser-automation fallbacks when simple requests do not work, helping replace repetitive manual browsing with a cleaner stream of updates.

## Source excerpt

This open-source tool helped me automate my news discovery system.