Is It News?: Decides, from a URL alone, whether a site is a news outlet. The classification step Cited deliberately removed, open-sourced under MIT.
It returns a verdict — news, not news, or borderline — with an itemized score that shows its work. No API key, no model, no database. The signal list, weights, gates, and thresholds are in the methodology. It runs as a library or from the command line; there is no hosted instance.
This is the classifier Cited chose not to be.
- Status
- stable
- Here you can
- get the source · read the methodology · run it locally
- Terms
Is It News? is released under the MIT License. Build on it freely. Use, modify, and redistribute it, including commercially. If you improve it, credit Andrew Graham.