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🗞️ Kiosk24 explore and tracks news websites

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I built an app that screenshots news sites hourly on Raspberry Pi 5

by herol3oy·Mar 1, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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Cloudflare + Playwright + Pi5 stack is well-chosen, but web-scraping for archives is solved territory.

Strengths
  • •Smart infrastructure choice: Playwright on Pi5 sends screenshots to Cloudflare Workers + R2/D1, eliminating server costs.
  • •Monorepo structure (Astro frontend, Hono API, shared types) is clean and modern; good template for similar projects.
  • •Solves a real use case: visual diff tracking for news sites—more nuanced than feed aggregation.
Weaknesses
  • •Web archiving and change detection exist (Wayback Machine, web.archive.org, Versionista); no novel approach or differentiator.
  • •Scope is narrow: hourly news screenshots work for one use case; unclear if this generalizes or has staying power.
Target Audience

News archivists, media researchers, self-hosters interested in web monitoring

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Wayback Machine · Versionista · Heritrix Web Crawler

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