upbeatBytes/README.md

goodNews

Local-first constructive news ingestion prototype.

The first milestone is intentionally small: collect public RSS/Atom metadata, dedupe it, store short source-provided snippets, and attach early reason-coded heuristic scores. It does not store full article bodies.

Commands

From this directory:

python3 -m goodnews init-db
python3 -m goodnews import-sources
python3 -m goodnews poll --limit 3
python3 -m goodnews rescore
python3 -m goodnews check-llm --base-url http://127.0.0.1:1234/v1 --model gpt-oss
python3 -m goodnews classify --limit 10 --base-url http://127.0.0.1:1234/v1 --model gpt-oss
python3 -m goodnews build-brief --date 2026-05-27 --replace
python3 -m goodnews show-brief
python3 -m goodnews list-recent --limit 10
python3 -m goodnews list-recent --accepted-only --limit 10
python3 -m goodnews list-category --topic animals --flavor discovery
python3 -m goodnews list-category --topic environment --flavor solution
python3 -m goodnews source-report
python3 -m goodnews list-runs

The SQLite database lives at:

data/goodnews.sqlite3

Sources live at:

config/sources.toml

Categories

When classified by the local model, each article is tagged with one topic and one flavor, allowing browsable category feeds (e.g. "feel-good animals", "environment solutions") via list-category:

• Topics: science, environment, health, community, culture, animals
• Flavors: breakthrough, discovery, solution, feelgood, perspective

The allowed values live in goodnews/taxonomy.py. The accept/reject gate is kept deliberately broad ("not dreary"); ranking and category filters do the curation.

Stored Article Data

For each article, the database stores:

• source
• canonical URL
• title
• short RSS/Atom description or summary
• author, if present
• published timestamp, if present
• image URL, if present
• language, if present
• hashes used for dedupe
• heuristic scores and reason codes

Next Steps

1. Run the poller for a few days and inspect which sources produce useful candidates.
2. Add source-level quality notes and deactivate noisy feeds.
3. Replace or supplement heuristic-v0 with a local model classifier.
4. Add a daily brief builder that selects 5 items using scores and source diversity.
5. Add a small web/API layer once the ingest data looks trustworthy.

Local Model Configuration

The classify command expects an OpenAI-compatible local chat-completions server.

You can pass settings directly:

python3 -m goodnews classify --base-url http://127.0.0.1:1234/v1 --model gpt-oss --limit 10

Or use environment variables:

export GOODNEWS_LLM_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:1234/v1
export GOODNEWS_LLM_MODEL=gpt-oss
python3 -m goodnews classify --limit 10

classify rewrites the current score/reason row for selected candidates. rescore can restore the fast heuristic scores.