Cartero

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Cartero (Spanish for "postman") is a content aggregation and distribution bot written in Go.

Live Instance

Check out Cartero in action:

• Bluesky: @news.karthihegde.dev
• Web Feed: news.karthihegde.dev

The Problem

I enjoy reading tech news on HackerNews, Lobsters, and hundreds of RSS feeds I’ve curated over the years. However, they often have too much content, and not all of it matches my interests. So, I built Cartero—a personal curator that aggregates content from different sources, filters it based on my interests and quality, and pushes it into a single feed.

Getting started? Head over to the Setup Guide for step-by-step instructions.

Sources

Cartero can pull content from multiple platforms. Here are the available sources:

| Source | Description | Key Settings | |--------|-----------|--------------| | HackerNews | Top stories and best posts from HackerNews | story_type: topstories, bestories, newstories | | Lobsters | Tech-focused community news aggregator | sort_by: hot, recent; filter by categories | | RSS | Any RSS/Atom feed URL | feed_url: Your feed URL | | LessWrong | Rationality and AI alignment discussions | General feed configuration |

Targets

Targets define where your content gets posted. You can send content to multiple destinations:

| Target | Type | Description | |--------|----------|-------------| | Discord | text or forum | Posts content to Discord channels or forum threads | | Feed | RSS/Atom | Exposes your aggregated content as a web feed |