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Every package NewsNow depends on, ranked by repo health score.

NewsNow is an open-source, real-time news aggregator built for developers and tech enthusiasts who want a distraction-free reading experience without third-party ads or paywalls. It aggregates trending and breaking news from dozens of sources — including Chinese tech platforms, financial data feeds, social media hot lists, and international outlets — and displays them in a clean, draggable multi-column layout.

The application is designed for flexible deployment: a basic fork-and-import workflow works on Cloudflare Pages or Vercel without any configuration, while full-featured deployments with login and caching require GitHub OAuth credentials and a supported database. Docker Compose deployment covers the self-hosted path for teams wanting full control over their data and infrastructure.

NewsNow uses an adaptive scraping system that respects each source's natural update cadence — real-time feeds refresh every 2 minutes while slower editorial sources cache for up to 60 minutes. Logged-in users can bypass the 30-minute default cache with a manual force-refresh, and position changes in ranked lists are visually highlighted through a built-in diff system that tracks item movement between refreshes.

The project also ships a companion MCP server (`newsnow-mcp-server`) that exposes its aggregated news data via the Model Context Protocol, making it possible to pull live news into AI agent workflows and LLM-powered applications with a single JSON configuration block.

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