Uses filter list of known paywall sites. Checks page for isAccessibleForFree. Looks for paywall vendor script signatures
Fetches hourly on my Macbook using RSS, HN Algolia API, Guardian API. Dedupes with nomic on Ollama.
JSON edition is here: https://freepress.today/api/edition.json Astro front-end.
Use justif and pretext for better typesetting and masonry columns
https://github.com/lyallcooper/justif https://github.com/chenglou/pretext
About 6 hours on Claude Code in two sessions.