The Crawl Times
Newspaper-style front pages for tech news sites
Details
- External ID
- 47411470
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- The Crawl Times
- Website domain
- crawltimes.com
- Launched
- March 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1070110701107011
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I built a small experiment that crawls tech-news-adjacent sites (like HN) and generates a newspaper-style front page for each one. This was inspired by Cloudflare's recent (controversial?) release of their /crawl API.It runs periodic crawls, picks up the top stories, and lays them out in a classic broadsheet format: top story, trending section, briefs, etc. Basically a daily edition of your favorite tech site.Nothing serious, just a weeknight project to play with Cloudflare's /crawl API and a few of their other tech offerings (workers, D1, etc.). I'm not in any way sponsored by CF, but if you're from CF and you're reading this I really dig your stack and you should give me credits to fund these dumb projects thank you very much.Home page: https://crawltimes.com/
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- newspaper front pages for tech news sites
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The app is a straightforward scheduled worker that scrapes RSS or HTML news sources, summarizes headlines via an LLM, and formats the output into an HTML/CSS newspaper template.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 131 days after the earliest competitor.
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