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This is a submission for the Bright Data AI Web Access Hackathon What I Built An AI agent that turns breaking news + live Reddit reactions into snackable audio summaries. Problem Solved: Staying informed requires juggling news sites and social pulse-checks. NewsNinja automates this: give it topics, and it silently scrapes headlines and Reddit threads (real-time, yes its unbelievable–thanks to BrightData's MCP), then uses AI to craft a 2-minute audio briefing. No more tab overload. Demo GitHub Repo: https://github.com/AIwithhassan/newsninja How I Used Bright Data's Infrastructure Web Unlocker for News Scraping Bright Data MCP Server for Reddit Scraping Reddit’s anti-bot measures usually make scraping feel like this: ❌ "Are you human?" CAPTCHAs ❌ Shadow-banned IPs ❌ Empty JSON responses With MCP Server: ✅ Discover: Tracked trending subreddits in real-time ✅ Access: Rotated residential proxies to mimic human behavior ✅ Extract: Parsed awards/upvotes from dynamically loaded comments ✅ Interact: Auto-scrolled infinite scroll pages Performance Improvements
This is a submission for the Bright Data AI Web Access Hackathon
What I Built
An AI agent that turns breaking news + live Reddit reactions into snackable audio summaries.
Problem Solved: Staying informed requires juggling news sites and social pulse-checks. NewsNinja automates this: give it topics, and it silently scrapes headlines and Reddit threads (real-time, yes its unbelievable–thanks to BrightData's MCP), then uses AI to craft a 2-minute audio briefing. No more tab overload.
Demo
- GitHub Repo: https://github.com/AIwithhassan/newsninja
How I Used Bright Data's Infrastructure
- Web Unlocker for News Scraping
- Bright Data MCP Server for Reddit Scraping Reddit’s anti-bot measures usually make scraping feel like this:
❌ "Are you human?" CAPTCHAs
❌ Shadow-banned IPs
❌ Empty JSON responses
With MCP Server:
✅ Discover: Tracked trending subreddits in real-time
✅ Access: Rotated residential proxies to mimic human behavior
✅ Extract: Parsed awards/upvotes from dynamically loaded comments
✅ Interact: Auto-scrolled infinite scroll pages
