Developers waste hours daily jumping between Hacker News, Reddit, TechCrunch, GitHub, Twitter, and dozens of other platforms just to stay updated. The information overload is real: AI announcements drop every hour, frameworks release weekly, and FOMO drives constant tab-switching across 35+ sources.
TrendRadar is an open-source AI-powered news aggregation tool that solves this. It monitors 35+ platforms simultaneously, filters topics by your keywords, and pushes notifications to Slack, Telegram, or email. Deployment takes 30 seconds via GitHub Actions. No infrastructure. No subscriptions.
The tool exploded on GitHub in November 2025, gaining 18,000 stars in two days and hitting 36,600+ total. It’s trending because TrendRadar combines multi-platform monitoring with Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, letting you query your trend database with natural language via AI assistants like Claude.
What TrendRadar Actually Does
TrendRadar scrapes 35+ platforms (Douyin, Zhihu, Bilibili, Wall Street News, Cailian Press, Weibo, Baidu, Phoenix News), aggregates trending topics into a local database, applies keyword filtering, and pushes notifications to your channels. The architecture: data aggregation → AI filtering → multi-channel delivery. A built-in web server (port 8080) gives you a dashboard view.
The tool is open-source (GPL-3.0), written in Python, and actively maintained. Version 3.5.0 (December 2025) added multi-account push support—send different filtered feeds to different teams. Tech news to #engineering on Slack. AI trends to your research Telegram group. Framework releases to personal email.
Why the explosion? Timing. Developers are drowning in tech news. Platform fragmentation means tabs for HN, Reddit, Twitter, TechCrunch, GitHub, Medium, and company blogs. TrendRadar consolidates it. GitHub Actions setup takes 30 seconds. No VPS. No Docker required. Privacy: it runs locally. Your trend data stays on your machine.
The MCP Integration: Why This Tool Is Different
TrendRadar’s differentiator: Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration. MCP is an open standard announced by Anthropic in November 2024 (adopted by OpenAI and Google DeepMind) for connecting AI applications to external systems. Think USB-C for AI—a standardized connector for data sources.
TrendRadar acts as an MCP server, exposing your local trend database to AI clients like Claude Desktop, Cherry Studio, or Cursor. It offers 14 analysis tools: basic queries (get_latest_news, get_trending_topics), intelligent search (search_news, search_related_news_history), and advanced analytics (analyze_topic_trend, analyze_sentiment, find_similar_news, generate_summary_report).
Practical impact: you stop manually reviewing trend lists and start asking questions. “What’s trending in AI this week?” Claude queries your TrendRadar database: “Top AI trends: 1) OpenAI’s GPT-5 preview (12K HN upvotes, 89% positive sentiment). 2) Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 updates (viral on Twitter). 3) Google Gemini 2.0 (Reddit debate split 52% pro, 48% skeptical).” The AI synthesizes cross-platform data automatically.
This is the first news aggregator with native MCP support. No other tool—not Feedly, not Brandwatch—offers this. Learn more about MCP in Anthropic’s official documentation.
Deployment: 30 Seconds or 5 Minutes
TrendRadar offers two paths: GitHub Actions (dead simple, free hosting) or Docker (persistent monitoring, more control).
GitHub Actions (30-Second Setup)
Best for beginners. Fork the repository, enable GitHub Actions in repo settings, edit config.yaml to select platforms (recommended: 10 max, 30-minute intervals), add API keys for notifications as GitHub Secrets, and commit. GitHub Actions runs automatically. HTML reports publish to GitHub Pages. Time: 30 seconds deployment, 1 minute notifications. Cost: $0.
Docker (5-Minute Setup)
Best for power users wanting 24/7 monitoring or MCP integration. Clone the repo, edit docker-compose.yml with platforms, keywords, and API keys, run docker-compose up -d. Web UI at localhost:8080. MCP service ready. Time: 5 minutes. Cost: $5/month VPS or free locally.
Intelligent Filtering and Use Cases
TrendRadar’s filtering turns noise into signal. Keyword operators: + (must include), ! (exclude), @ (exact match). Example: +AI +machine learning !cryptocurrency filters for AI/ML news while blocking crypto. +React +Vue !Angular gets JavaScript framework news without Angular clutter.
Three push modes: incremental (new content only—most efficient), current rankings (persistent trending topics), and daily summary (complete match list). Pick based on workflow. Incremental for real-time alerts. Daily summary for morning briefings.
Real use cases: Track framework releases (React 19, Python 3.13). Monitor GitHub trending repos. Filter tech news to AI, cloud, DevOps only. Generate morning briefings with AI summaries via MCP. Competitive intelligence: monitor competitor launches, analyze sentiment, track industry trends. Content creation: identify trending topics, check if trends are rising or falling, generate outlines from trend data. Team notifications: push tech news to #engineering on Slack, share AI trends on Telegram, email digests to executives.
Why TrendRadar Beats Alternatives
RSS readers like Feedly offer no AI analysis, no cross-platform synthesis, and cloud-only operation. Social listening tools like Brandwatch cost $500-$5,000/month. Google Alerts is limited to search results. Custom scripts take hours to build and maintain.
TrendRadar combines breadth (35+ platforms), intelligence (14 MCP analysis tools), ease (30-second setup), privacy (local deployment), and cost (free, open-source). It’s the only news aggregator with native MCP support as of December 2025.
Choose TrendRadar if you track more than 10 platforms regularly, want AI-powered trend analysis via MCP, care about privacy, are comfortable with GitHub or Docker, and need a free solution.
Try It Now
TrendRadar isn’t just another news aggregator. It’s a productivity tool for developers tired of manual platform-hopping. The GitHub explosion (18,000 stars in two days) validates that information overload is real and TrendRadar is a solution.
Fork the TrendRadar repository, deploy via GitHub Actions in 30 seconds, configure keywords, and run. For the full MCP experience—querying trends with natural language via Claude—spin up the Docker version and connect an AI client. The tool is free, open-source, and actively maintained. The community is growing (36,600 stars, 19,900 forks, 73+ donors).
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