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• Schedule settings: daily auto-run and background collection 11/04/2026

  README: Schedule settings enable daily auto-run and parameters for background collection.

• DOCX and app.py: command-line flags for one-off reports 10/04/2026

  README: app.py requires a query; examples include max age, max items, min text length, and DOCX output path.

• File exports: history, download links, and JSON preview 09/04/2026

  README: File exports lists JSON/DOCX history, download links, and JSON preview on the export record.

• JSON export: three modes on the news collection management page 08/04/2026

  README: Export JSON in three modes—last successful run, single date, and date range—from the collection management UI.

• News list in the admin: browse, search, and filter collected items 07/04/2026

  README: the News section supports viewing/searching/filtering collected news items.

• Collection logs: what stages NewsPulse records 06/04/2026

  README: detailed collection steps, filtering, and errors appear in Collection logs and in the run record.

• Collection runs: history, status, and manual runs from the admin 05/04/2026

  The README lists Collection runs: history of runs and the ability to start collection from the admin UI.

• Keywords and an empty main query in the schedule 04/04/2026

  NewsPulse: keywords are added manually; the main schedule query may be empty so only enabled keywords drive collection—per README.

• Yandex RSS returns a login page: how NewsPulse skips the source 03/04/2026

  README behaviour: when XML is replaced by a challenge page, the source is skipped—how to diagnose network or proxy issues.

• National wire RSS feeds: disable or remove a source in the admin 02/04/2026

  README: extra federal feeds appear after migration; in News sources you can disable or delete entries—no fictional modes beyond what the admin provides.

• Adding a Google News RSS source in NewsPulse 02/04/2026

  How Google News works as a news source type in the admin UI, including the proxy chain documented for Google News RSS in the README.

• Google News RSS: order of direct access and proxies in NewsPulse 02/04/2026

  How NewsPulse tries Google News RSS: direct first, then source proxy, NEWSPULSE_RSS_PROXY, and fallback URLs—per project README.

• GOOGLE_TRY_DIRECT_FIRST and RSS proxy fallbacks for Google News 02/04/2026

  Environment variables that tune Google News RSS in NewsPulse: turn off direct-first and provide comma-separated fallback proxy URLs.

• Publishing queue: VK, Telegram, and Odnoklassniki 02/04/2026

  Queued posts, templates, and result logs—how NewsPulse connects to social networks.

• NEWSPULSE_RSS_PROXY: shared proxy when a source has no proxy URL 02/04/2026

  When to set NEWSPULSE_RSS_PROXY on the server: one outbound path for RSS where the source row leaves the proxy field empty.

• Per-source proxy for RSS and article pages in NewsPulse 02/04/2026

  Why NewsPulse lets you set a proxy on each news source: corporate networks, different rules per feed, and fetching article HTML without relying on one global proxy.

• socks5:// proxies and why PySocks is mentioned in the README 02/04/2026

  NewsPulse supports SOCKS5 proxy URLs for RSS and article fetching; the README asks you to install PySocks so requests can use socks5:// endpoints.

• RIA/TASS sources: query filter on RSS title and description 02/04/2026

  NewsPulse applies a filter requiring the query to appear in the RSS item title or description for some additional sources such as RIA and TASS—per README.

• RSS news collection: filters, Google News and Yandex.News feeds 02/04/2026

  How NewsPulse pulls RSS feeds and filters by freshness and text length—only features that exist in the product today.

• Custom RSS feed URL: adding your own source 02/04/2026

  NewsPulse lets you attach RSS feeds by URL alongside built-in source types, using per-source proxy settings and NEWSPULSE_RSS_PROXY when the field is empty.

• Install NewsPulse on your server: archive, Linux, MySQL or SQLite 02/04/2026

  What is inside NewsPulse-web-archive.zip and how the Linux install script works—no fake cloud SaaS promises.

• Yandex News RSS as a source: what NewsPulse documents 02/04/2026

  Using Yandex News RSS in NewsPulse, including the README note that some networks may receive a challenge page instead of XML.

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