google-news-rss

name	google-news-rss
version	1.0.0
category	trendy
description	Key-free Google News RSS source (PRD §4.1, §6.6). Fetches https://news.google.com/rss (hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en), parses item/entry blocks, and returns signals for clustering. Budget-aware: one feed fetch per run, capped at 25 items.
triggers	["fetch google news","google news signals"]
dependencies	[]
cadence	on-demand
job_duration	short

Google News RSS

How to run

1. Fetch the feed with a browser-like User-Agent and a 15s timeout.
2. Parse <item> blocks (Atom <entry> fallback): title, link, pubDate.
3. Decode basic entities (&, <, >, ", ',  ).
4. Keep at most 25 items, newest first.

Signal shape (zod SignalSchema)

source: "google_news"
source_ref: stable dedup key derived from source+title+url
title: item title
url: item link
detected_at: pubDate or now (ISO)

Handling of failures: non-200 → {ok: false, error}; network error → same. Never retry more than once; report the gap to the detection stage.

Budget

• One feed request per run. No pagination. If the feed is unreachable, return zero signals with an error — do not substitute another source silently.