How to Build a News Aggregator with Web Scraping (5 Free Sources)

A news aggregator that pulls from multiple sources is easy to build with free APIs. The 5 Free News Sources Google News RSS — news.google.com/rss/search?q=QUERY Hacker News Algolia — hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=QUERY Reddit — reddit.com/r/SUBREDDIT.json Wikipedia Current Events — en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php arXiv — export.arxiv.org/api/query All free. No API keys. The Aggregator async function aggregateNews ( topic ) { const sources = [ fetchGoogleNews ( topic ), fetchHN ( topic ), fetchReddit ( topic ), fetchWikipedia ( topic ), fetchArxiv ( topic ) ]; const results = await Promise . allSettled ( sources ); const articles = results . filter ( r => r . status === " fulfilled " ) . flatMap ( r => r . value ); // Sort by date articles . sort (( a , b ) => new Date ( b . date ) - new Date ( a . date )); return articles ; } Output [ { "title" : "..." , "source" : "Google News" , "date" : "2026-03-21" }, { "title" : "..." , "source" : "Hacker News" , "date" : "2026-03-21" }, { "title"