BestBlogs.dev

Discover content truly worth your time.
BestBlogs is an AI-powered personal reading assistant.

It judges what's worth reading, helps you read faster and deeper, and learns your preferences over time. Natively supports RSS, Newsletter, Twitter, YouTube, and Podcast — bridging a bilingual (Chinese/English) quality pool. Over 20,000 registered users and growing.

v2.4.0 highlights: Your first personalized Pro brief arrives within 15 minutes after activation. Paste a link to auto-detect and add YouTube, Xiaoyuzhou, or WeChat sources. My Reading and My Follows are now unified into a streamlined workspace.

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1. Why BestBlogs

If you've ever subscribed to 200 RSS feeds but dread opening your reader every day, these three kinds of fatigue will sound familiar:

Pain point with self-managed RSS	BestBlogs response
Information overload: 200+ articles a day, impossible to keep up	AI filters at the source with six-dimensional scoring — only high-scoring content surfaces each day
Can't find the good stuff: clickbait, reposts, machine-translated spam all mixed in	AI pre-screening + editorial curation forms a shared quality pool — everyone benefits from the same signal
No signal on depth: no way to tell what's worth a slow read	Every piece gets scored across Topic / Content / Depth / Practicality / Innovation / Expression
Language barrier: English originals are hard; waiting for Chinese summaries means delay and distortion	Bidirectional immersive translation + AI reading copilot — read originals directly
Repetitive coverage: the same story washed across five feeds	Topic pages aggregate fragments into a panoramic view across four lenses: Event / Domain / Person / Product Comparison

BestBlogs doesn't promise more content. It promises content more suited to you.

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2. What It Is

BestBlogs.dev is an AI-powered personal reading assistant. The product has two sides:

• Public Curation Layer — high-quality content curated for all visitors, no login required
• My Space — a personalized reading flow for logged-in and Pro users

Both are powered by the same shared quality pool (AI pre-screening + editorial curation).

Core Features

Public Curation Layer (available to everyone, no login)

Feature	Description
Daily Brief	Bilingual (Chinese/English) digest + 10–15 min podcast (Apple / Spotify / Xiaoyuzhou) + distributed via poster, Telegram, X, and RSS
Featured Weekly	A weekly hand-curated collection of the most valuable content, refined further from the public quality pool
Topic Pages	Editorial deep-dives around key events, domains, people, and product comparisons — fragments assembled into a full-picture view
Explore	The main browsing hub for all public BestBlogs content — "Featured / Latest" dual views, no personalization

My Space (login required; Pro unlocks the full workflow)

Feature	Description
My Brief	Personalized daily digest (text + email) based on your follows, interest tags, and reading behavior — Pro only; first brief arrives within 15 min of Pro activation
My Follows	Three-column workspace for five source types (RSS / Newsletter / Twitter / YouTube / Podcast); paste a URL to auto-detect and add YouTube, Xiaoyuzhou, or WeChat sources
My Reading	AI reading copilot (summary / translation / Q&A / chapter navigation) + library (bookmarks / highlights / history) — all in one unified page
My Review	An evening recap page that organizes your day's reading footprint into a daily reading summary — Pro only

Cross-feature Capabilities

Capability	Description
AI Content Analysis	Six-dimensional scoring (Topic / Content / Depth / Practicality / Innovation / Expression) + summary + key insights + quotes
Immersive Translation	Bidirectional Chinese ↔ English, across articles / tweets / podcasts / videos
Explainable Profile	Interests driven by explicit behavior (follows, reading, domain-level custom counts) — no manual weight tuning

Screenshots

Public Curation Layer

My Space (Pro)

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3. Free vs Pro

Free is a complete, standalone high-quality reading product. Pro is the full personal reading assistant workflow.

Feature	Free	Pro
Full Public Curation Layer	✅	✅
Daily Brief / Featured Weekly / Topic Pages / Explore	✅	✅
My Brief (personalized)	❌	✅ Text + email, daily delivery
My Review	❌	✅ Evening reading summary
Custom Views	❌	✅ Filter by topic / tag / source
Source follow limit	Capped	10× higher
AI Reading Copilot	3/day	30/day (10×)
Immersive Translation	3/day	30/day (10×)
Basic Reading Library (bookmarks / highlights / history)	✅	✅
OpenAPI v2	✅	✅

Pro Trial: 7 days free for new users, 14 days for returning users — full access to the personal reading assistant workflow → Start Free Trial

Quotas are adjusted dynamically by the backend. BestBlogs has no aggressive upgrade popups or forced upsells — the motivation to upgrade comes from actually hitting the ceiling on capabilities you use.

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4. Quick Start

Browse directly: Visit bestblogs.dev — all public content is free to read.

Command line (for developers and AI agents):

npm install -g @bestblogs/cli
bestblogs auth login           # Enter your API Key (generate in Settings)
bestblogs discover today       # Today's most worth-reading content
bestblogs read deep <id>       # Deep-read one article

Agent Skills (Claude Code / Codex / Cursor, etc.):

npx @bestblogs/skills           # Install all Skills in one step
# After install, just say: "What's worth reading on BestBlogs today?"

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5. Newsletter

Every Friday, the Featured Weekly Newsletter delivers a hand-curated collection of the week's best content — AI pre-screened and editorially refined, available as text, email, annotated read, and podcast → Browse past issues

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6. RSS Feeds

BestBlogs.dev offers flexible RSS subscriptions:

Scope	URL
All content	https://www.bestblogs.dev/zh/feeds/rss
Featured only	https://www.bestblogs.dev/zh/feeds/rss?featured=y
Programming articles	https://www.bestblogs.dev/zh/feeds/rss?category=programming&type=article
High-score AI content (English)	https://www.bestblogs.dev/en/feeds/rss?category=ai&minScore=90
Featured Weekly (Newsletter)	https://www.bestblogs.dev/zh/feeds/rss/newsletter
Daily Brief	https://www.bestblogs.dev/zh/feeds/rss/daily-brief

Full parameter reference: BestBlogs_RSS_Doc.md

BestBlogs Quality Pool OPML

OPML files of the sources currently tracked by BestBlogs — import into any RSS reader:

• All (400): BestBlogs_RSS_ALL.opml
• Articles (170): BestBlogs_RSS_Articles.opml
• Podcasts (30): BestBlogs_RSS_Podcasts.opml
• Videos (40): BestBlogs_RSS_Videos.opml
• Twitter (160): BestBlogs_RSS_Twitters.opml

💡 After importing, try following these sources on BestBlogs.dev — let the AI filter them for you. The question isn't "what did I subscribe to?" but "what's actually worth reading?"

Curated Source Collection (opml/)

The BestBlogs team is systematically curating high-quality RSS sources by type. 551 sources are published so far (375 WeChat + 57 podcasts + 119 YouTube channels), with more types coming — stay tuned.

Published so far:

File	Type	Count	Notes
opml/bestblogs_wechat2rss_opml_all.opml	WeChat Public Accounts	375	RSS via wechat2rss; companion post
opml/bestblogs_podcast_opml_all.opml	Podcasts (Xiaoyuzhou)	57	Xiaoyuzhou podcast RSS; companion post
opml/bestblogs_youtube_opml_all.opml	YouTube	119	YouTube channel RSS; companion post

Have a quality RSS source to recommend? Open an Issue.

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7. OpenAPI v2

BestBlogs v2 API is open to developers, providing content discovery, reading, and personal data management.

Base URL: https://api.bestblogs.dev/openapi/v2
Auth: Header X-API-KEY: <your_key> (generate in Settings)

Module	Description
openapi/01-auth.md	Authentication and identity, common conventions
openapi/02-intake.md	Interest profile setup, cold-start onboarding
openapi/03-discover.md	Content discovery: briefs / recommendations / search
openapi/04-read.md	Content reading: full text / Markdown / metadata
openapi/05-capture.md	Bookmarks / highlight notes / reading history
Topics	GET /openapi/v2/topics (list) + GET /openapi/v2/topics/{slug} (detail, with four typed fields, references, and further reading) — same auth; standalone docs in progress

Typical flow: Auth → Intake (build profile) → Discover (find content) → Read (deep read) → Capture (save notes)

v1 API is deprecated. Historical docs: archive/v1-openapi.md

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8. CLI & Agent Skills

@bestblogs/cli

The official command-line tool, built on OpenAPI v2. All commands support --json for direct AI agent consumption.

npm install -g @bestblogs/cli
bestblogs auth login
bestblogs intake setup           # Cold start: pick interest tags
bestblogs discover today --limit 20
bestblogs read deep <resourceId>
bestblogs capture bookmark add <resourceId> --note "Worth re-reading"

• Docs: cli/README.md
• Changelog: cli/CHANGELOG.md
• Source: cli/src/ (TypeScript, MIT license)

BestBlogs Skills

A set of SKILL.md files that let Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, and other agents actively invoke BestBlogs capabilities (25 stable primitives).

npx @bestblogs/skills             # Install to Claude Code and Codex by default
npx @bestblogs/skills --client codex
npx @bestblogs/skills upgrade     # Upgrade to the latest version

After install, just say:

• "What's worth reading today?" → bestblogs-discover

• "Deep-read this article" → bestblogs-read

• "Bookmark this with a note" → bestblogs-capture

• "Why was this recommended to me?" → bestblogs-explain

• "Show me BestBlogs topic pages / show topic X" → bestblogs-topic

• Docs: skills/README.md

• Install guide: skills/INSTALL.md

• Source: skills/

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9. Build in Public

BestBlogs is built entirely in public. Here are some behind-the-scenes posts on product decisions and technical implementation:

Post	Date	Summary
BestBlogs 2.0 Beta: Building a Reading Product That Actually Fits Me	Apr 2026	What the v2.0 beta launch taught me about what the product should really solve
Why BestBlogs Is Going Agent Native	Apr 2026	Opening OpenAPI / CLI / Skills: organizing reading capabilities into composable workflow primitives
Inside the BestBlogs Daily Brief AI System	Mar 2026	How the AI agent workflow behind the daily brief actually works — Skills, Agents, and automation
AI Content Analysis with Dify Workflow at BestBlogs.dev	Jul 2024	Full walkthrough: from article pre-screening to deep analysis to multilingual translation
BestBlogs Source Curation Vol. 1: WeChat Public Accounts	Jun 2026	375 actively updated WeChat public account RSS feeds, organized by category
BestBlogs Source Curation Vol. 2: Podcasts & Videos	Jun 2026	57 Xiaoyuzhou podcasts + 119 YouTube channels, organized by category

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10. Docs & Resources

Product and Technical Docs

Document	Description
docs/1-VISION.md	Vision and long-term direction
docs/2-PRODUCT.md	Product strategy, capability matrix, execution roadmap
docs/3-BRAND.md	Brand guidelines and expression standards
docs/4-ARCHITECTURE.md	System boundaries, technical pipeline, and feature flags
docs/5-DESIGN.md	Visual and interaction guidelines
docs/6-UI-SPEC.md	UI component and interaction specs
docs/7-CONVENTIONS.md	Development conventions and code style
docs/8-CURRENT_STATE.md	Current phase, capabilities, and roadmap
docs/9-TESTING.md	Test layering, coverage principles, and quality gates
docs/10-TERMINOLOGY.md	Chinese/English terminology reference
docs/11-OPERATIONS.md	Operations principles, monitoring, and rollback boundaries
docs/12-WORKFLOW.md	Development workflow, review standards, and delivery loop
docs/13-INFRA-DEPS.md	Global technical architecture, runtime components, and external dependencies

Version History

Full bilingual changelogs in changelog/ (from v2.0.0). Each minor release (v2.x.0) is also published as a GitHub Release.

Roadmap & Community

• 🗺️ Roadmap: See the "Roadmap" section in docs/8-CURRENT_STATE.md
• 💬 GitHub Discussions: Roadmap discussions, feature requests, monthly updates → Join the discussion

Historical Archive

archive/ contains v1 API docs, early Dify implementation documents, and other historical materials for reference only.

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11. How It Works

AI Content Processing Pipeline

RSS crawl → pre-filter → AI deep analysis → multilingual translation → index → personalized recommendation

1. Content Crawl: RSS + headless browser full-text extraction; sources support custom CSS selectors.

2. Pre-filter: Language detection, quality signal scoring, filtering of low-value content.

3. AI Deep Analysis: LLM generates six-dimensional scores + summary + key insights + quotes + tags.

4. Multilingual Translation: Terminology detection → initial translation → review → idiomatic refinement; bilingual Chinese/English.

5. Personalized Recommendation: Six-dimensional interest tag matching + daily brief intelligent curation.

Detailed implementation docs and Dify DSLs:

• BestBlogs.dev AI Content Analysis (Chinese)
• Intelligent Article Analysis at BestBlogs.dev (English)
• Workflow DSLs: flows/Dify/dsl/

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12. Community & Support

Alongside the podcast and YouTube source curation, we've also organized BestBlogs' public channels for community and updates.

If you're interested in RSS, AI-powered reading, agent workflows, high-quality sources, or personal knowledge management, follow BestBlogs here:

Channel	Description
WeChat Group	Day-to-day chat, feedback, and source recommendations; if the QR code expires, add ginobot on WeChat to join
WeChat Official Account	Product updates, source curation, and reading tips → Follow
Feishu Group	Deeper product, engineering, and ops discussions → Join
Xiaoyuzhou Podcast	Chinese daily brief, curated picks, and product news → Listen
Apple Podcasts	For listeners who prefer Apple Podcasts → Subscribe
Public Repo	OPML, source lists, OpenAPI, CLI, and Agent skills → BestBlogs on GitHub
Author's Blog	Product iteration, architecture, growth, and indie dev notes → GinoNotes
Official X	Product updates, daily brief, and curated content → @BestBlogsDev
Gino on X	BestBlogs, AI reading, RSS, agents, and indie dev → @hongming731
Xiaoguang on X	Product, content, community, startups, and reading experience → @puliandc

If BestBlogs.dev has been useful to you:

• ⭐ Star this repo — help others discover it
• 🚀 Sign up at BestBlogs.dev — experience the full AI reading assistant
• 📧 Email feedback: [email protected]
• 🐛 File an issue: GitHub Issues
• 💬 Join the discussion: GitHub Discussions

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following open-source projects:

• RSSHub — RSS for everything
• wechat2rss — WeChat public accounts → RSS
• Dify — LLM application development platform
• XGo.ing — Twitter/X RSS feeds
• Bark — iOS push notifications
• Uptime Kuma — self-hosted monitoring

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