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FOSS RSS Reader app with chatgpt summarizer. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by 43dc92z0@lemmy.world to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

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There is an app called FocusReader which does exactly above using user provided chatgpt Api key. I dont want to use api rather authentication in browser since api costs. If app is foss its better. If no such app exist. I may learn app development and integrate this feature in Flym. If anyone has any alternative in mind, please suggest or if you have android app development experience, suggest after looking at the code at github how can i go about the development myself.

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[–] PeachMan@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

I think what you're talking about doing is quite difficult, and there will be a lot of obstacles in your way. You're proposing:

Circumventing the API fees, which is something that ChatGPT would definitely not like, and they will make it as difficult as possible. You're not the only one trying to avoid paying for this very popular service.
Crawling the entire contents of each page with a bot, which is another thing that websites do NOT want you to do. There are only a handful of RSS readers that do this, and they're paid, closed-source, proprietary apps. And even those probably don't work on certain websites.

I'm not saying it's impossible, just that you have chosen a very difficult path here. If you've never developed an app before, start with a smaller, simpler project.