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TrendRadar is an AI-driven public opinion and trend monitoring tool that aggregates trending topics from many Chinese platforms plus RSS feeds, filters them with keywords or AI, and pushes a smart briefing to your phone or desktop.
TrendRadar is an AI-driven public opinion and trend monitoring tool that aggregates trending topics from many Chinese platforms plus RSS feeds, filters them with keywords or AI, and pushes a smart briefing to your phone or desktop.Is this a cloud service or something I host myself?It's a self-hosted Python project you run via Docker or locally; it doesn't scrape sites itself but pulls multi-platform hot-topic data from the open-source newsnow project's API.
It's a self-hosted Python project you run via Docker or locally; it doesn't scrape sites itself but pulls multi-platform hot-topic data from the open-source newsnow project's API.How do I get it running?You can fork the repo and deploy it with Docker, or run it locally with Python; the README advertises a roughly 30-second Docker deployment for the lightest setup.
You can fork the repo and deploy it with Docker, or run it locally with Python; the README advertises a roughly 30-second Docker deployment for the lightest setup.Do I need an AI API key to use the smart filtering?Basic keyword filtering works out of the box with no AI key, but the AI-based filtering, translation and summary features (and MCP) need an LLM API key configured in config.yaml, plus separate tokens/webhooks for whichever push channels you enable (WeChat, Feishu, DingTalk, Telegram, email, ntfy, bark, Slack).
Basic keyword filtering works out of the box with no AI key, but the AI-based filtering, translation and summary features (and MCP) need an LLM API key configured in config.yaml, plus separate tokens/webhooks for whichever push channels you enable (WeChat, Feishu, DingTalk, Telegram, email, ntfy, bark, Slack).What happens if the underlying newsnow API has problems?TrendRadar depends entirely on the third-party newsnow project's free API for its multi-platform data, so the maintainer asks self-hosters to keep push frequency reasonable to avoid overloading that shared service.
TrendRadar depends entirely on the third-party newsnow project's free API for its multi-platform data, so the maintainer asks self-hosters to keep push frequency reasonable to avoid overloading that shared service.What does the MCP integration let AI assistants do?TrendRadar exposes an MCP server so an AI client can query it in natural language for trend analysis, sentiment insights and prediction, and even trigger pushes to all configured channels itself.
TrendRadar exposes an MCP server so an AI client can query it in natural language for trend analysis, sentiment insights and prediction, and even trigger pushes to all configured channels itself.How does AI smart filtering differ from keyword filtering?Instead of setting keywords, you describe your interests in plain language in aiinterests.txt (e.g. 'news about AI and new energy') and the AI tags and scores each headline, automatically falling back to keyword matching if the AI filter fails.
Instead of setting keywords, you describe your interests in plain language in aiinterests.txt (e.g. 'news about AI and new energy') and the AI tags and scores each headline, automatically falling back to keyword matching if the AI filter fails.Can I read the reports comfortably in a browser?Yes, the HTML report supports a dark mode, wide-screen layout, tab switching between keyword groups, live search, one-click headline copying, and Markdown/screenshot export, while emails keep a simpler fixed layout.
Yes, the HTML report supports a dark mode, wide-screen layout, tab switching between keyword groups, live search, one-click headline copying, and Markdown/screenshot export, while emails keep a simpler fixed layout.What are similar projects?daily_stock_analysis, Horizon, walle-web, LangBot, chatwoot, Crucix, SmsForwarder, BettaFish
daily_stock_analysis, Horizon, walle-web, LangBot, chatwoot, Crucix, SmsForwarder, BettaFishWhich topics is it in?mail, sentiment-analysis, webhook, news, mcp-client, rss, data-analysis, notifications, slack, wechat, email, telegram
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