Developer Builds Pipeline That Automates Daily Scanning of AI Research, News and Jobs

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A developer grew tired of manually checking around fifteen AI websites each morning and built an open-source data ingestion engine to handle the task automatically. The tool scrapes arXiv, Papers with Code and GitHub for research and repositories, pulls news from five major AI outlets, and uses Playwright to collect job listings from five boards. Only items published within the past 24 hours are retained, and an LLM-based extractor with a fallback chain across Gemini, Groq and DeepSeek structures the data and handles rate limits. Entity names are normalized through fuzzy matching against a canonical dictionary, and the results are stored in SQLite and exported as CSV files.

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