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5/11/2026

Source Score: Using AI to automate addition of new sources
Short summary
Built an automated monthly pipeline to discover and ingest news sources: scrapes PressGazette rankings with Firecrawl, extracts URLs using free-tier LLMs via OpenRouter with model fallbacks for reliability, generates Source YAML configs, and opens PRs to update a live dashboard. Cost-optimized with zero-manual-intervention CI/CD integration.
- •Automated source discovery using Firecrawl scraping + free LLM extraction via OpenRouter
- •Cost-optimized with fallback logic across 3 free models; validates URLs via LLM web search
- •Fully integrated GitHub Actions workflow for zero-manual-intervention data ingestion
Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.
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