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Dev.to
5/11/2026
Source Score: Using AI to automate addition of new sources

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

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