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The Crawl Times – Newspaper-style front pages for tech news sites

The Crawl Times – Newspaper-style front pages for tech news sites

by g_br_l·Mar 17, 2026·5 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidEye CandyCozy

Cloudflare /crawl API powers nostalgic newspaper layouts for Hacker News and friends.

Strengths
  • •Classic broadsheet layout with top story, trending section, and briefs feels genuinely nostalgic.
  • •Uses Cloudflare Workers and D1 for serverless periodic crawls with minimal infrastructure.
  • •Archive browsing lets you revisit past editions like actual newspaper back issues.
Weaknesses
  • •Novelty presentation layer without solving a problem RSS readers don't already handle.
  • •Author admits it's a weeknight experiment with no roadmap beyond playing with CF stack.
Category
Other
Target Audience

Tech news readers who enjoy nostalgic print formats

Similar To

Cloudflare /crawl API demos · RSS readers · Morning Brew

Post 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/

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