The latest articles on DEV Community by M. Hassan Mahmood (@ai_with_hassan). https://dev.to/ai_with_hassan https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3150667%2F503a140a-c514-4957-a640-b70c4b444b9f.jpg https://dev.to/ai_with_hassan en M. Hassan Mahmood Sun, 25 May 2025 23:07:59 +0000 https://dev.to/ai_with_hassan/newsninja-4kca https://dev.to/ai_with_hassan/newsninja-4kca <p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/brightdata-2025-05-07">Bright Data AI Web Access Hackathon</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>An AI agent that turns breaking news + live Reddit reactions into snackable audio summaries.</p> <p>Problem Solved: Staying informed requires juggling news sites and social pulse-checks. NewsNinja automates this: give it topics, and it silently scrapes headlines and Reddit threads (real-time, yes its unbelievable–thanks to BrightData's MCP), then uses AI to craft a 2-minute audio briefing. No more tab overload.</p> <h2> Demo </h2> <ul> <li> <strong>GitHub Repo</strong>: <a href="https://github.com/AIwithhassan/newsninja" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/AIwithhassan/newsninja</a> </li> <li> <strong>My Youtube Channel (I create AI projects)</strong>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@AI.with.Hassan/featured" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/@AI.with.Hassan/featured</a> </li> </ul> <h2> How I Used Bright Data's Infrastructure </h2> <ol> <li>Web Unlocker for News Scraping </li> <li>Bright Data MCP Server for Reddit Scraping Reddit’s anti-bot measures usually make scraping feel like this:</li> </ol> <p>❌ "Are you human?" CAPTCHAs<br> ❌ Shadow-banned IPs<br> ❌ Empty JSON responses</p> <p>With MCP Server:<br> ✅ Discover: Tracked trending subreddits in real-time<br> ✅ Access: Rotated residential proxies to mimic human behavior<br> ✅ Extract: Parsed awards/upvotes from dynamically loaded comments<br> ✅ Interact: Auto-scrolled infinite scroll pages</p> <h2> Architecture Diagram </h2> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fgtt41b2ytdtpb6zy1hog.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fgtt41b2ytdtpb6zy1hog.png" alt="Image description" width="800" height="441"></a></p> <h2> Performance Improvements </h2> <ul> <li>Reddit’s Anti-Bot Shields Neutralized</li> <li>Auto-scroll + human-like interaction patterns reduced CAPTCHAs</li> <li>Residential proxies rotated 3000+ IPs during testing with zero bans</li> <li>News Paywalls Defeated</li> <li>Web Unlocker bypassed 15+ premium sites at scale</li> <li>Handled multiple concurrent users during load tests </li> <li>Most importantly MCP provides a single prompt access to the live data on the internet which can be scraped at scale! </li> </ul> <h2> Issues raised: </h2> <ol> <li><a href="https://github.com/brightdata-com/brightdata-mcp/issues/17" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/brightdata-com/brightdata-mcp/issues/17</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/brightdata-com/brightdata-mcp/issues/16" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/brightdata-com/brightdata-mcp/issues/16</a></li> </ol> devchallenge brightdatachallenge ai webdata