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🔹 Automated News Summary Podcast
👤 Client: 🇺🇸 Chicago, United States Member since 2026-04-23
💰 Price: $458 Average bid
🚩 Problem: Generate a summary podcast from news articles, publications, and substacks.
📦 Existing: Not specified

Specifications:

[Target] Scrape URLs for news content
[Method] Web scraping tools (e.g., BeautifulSoup)
[UI/UX] N/A
[Stack] Python, Flask or FastAPI for API development, NLTK or spaCy for summarization, FFmpeg for MP4 generation
[Security] Secure API endpoints, HTTPS
[Format] JSON for data exchange, MP4 for podcast output

Workflow:

1. Define the list of URLs to be scraped.
2. Implement web scraping using BeautifulSoup or similar library to extract news articles.
3. Develop an API endpoint in Flask/FastAPI to accept URL lists and return summarized content.
4. Integrate summarization tools (NLTK, spaCy) to generate conversational summaries of the articles.
5. Schedule a task to run on Mondays at 8 AM to gather news from URLs and create summaries.
6. Use FFmpeg or similar tool to convert text summaries into an MP4 file for podcast format.