An RSS firehose, tamed by LLM grading

What it does

BestBlogs.dev is an AI-curated reading platform for developers and tech workers. It scrapes articles, podcasts, videos, and tweets from over 600 RSS feeds daily, runs them through a Dify-based LLM pipeline for six-dimensional scoring (topic, depth, utility, innovation, expression, and content quality), then surfaces personalized digests via web, email, audio, or RSS. The project also ships a public API, a TypeScript CLI, and “Skills” integrations for Claude Code and Cursor.

The interesting bit

The scoring isn’t just thumbs-up/thumbs-down. The Dify workflow generates structured analysis—summary, key takeaways, notable quotes, and bilingual translation—before anything hits your feed. The repo exposes the actual DSL files and case-study docs, so you can inspect (or adapt) the LLM pipeline rather than treating it as a black box.

Key highlights

• 13,000+ registered users; free tier covers all public content, Pro adds personalized “For You” feeds and deep-dive briefings
• Granular RSS output: filter by category, content type, minimum AI score, or language (/zh vs /en endpoints)
• CLI and Agent Skills (@bestblogs/cli, @bestblogs/skills) expose the full API surface to terminal users and AI coding agents
• Open-sourced OPML files: 400+ vetted feeds split by format (articles, podcasts, videos, Twitter/X)
• Extensive bilingual product docs in docs/ covering vision, architecture, brand voice, and operational runbooks

Caveats

• The v1 API is deprecated and no longer accepting new integrations; migration to v2 is required
• Pro subscription details (pricing, limits) are not specified in the README
• The “AI scoring” pipeline accuracy and cost at scale are not quantified in the provided sources

Verdict

Worth a look if you’re drowning in tech RSS feeds and want opinionated, LLM-graded filtering with a usable API. Skip it if you need a self-hosted solution—this is a hosted service with open tooling around it, not a deployable aggregator.