Sunny Side Scoop scrapes hundreds of news sources throughout the day, filters every story through a sentiment analysis layer, and surfaces only the ones that are genuinely positive — breakthroughs, rescues, community wins, scientific discoveries, and human kindness.
Every six hours, our scraper fetches the latest articles from RSS feeds across local TV stations, public radio, science journals, and dedicated good-news outlets. Each headline and snippet is scored for emotional tone. Stories below a positivity threshold — or that contain political keywords — are quietly discarded.
What remains is a curated stream of stories about people doing remarkable things, science making life better, communities coming together, and the natural world thriving.
We pull from 99 sources including NPR, PBS NewsHour, local NBC and CBS affiliates in every major US metro, the Good News Network, Positive.News, Reasons to be Cheerful, Optimist Daily, NASA, Yale Environment 360, ScienceAlert, Mongabay, CleanTechnica, Mayo Clinic News, and many more. No tabloids, no aggregators.
Why is my city missing? — We cover most major US metros. If a city isn’t listed yet, it means we haven’t added a local feed for it. The list grows over time.
Can I submit a story? — Not yet, but it’s on the roadmap.
How do you define “good news”? — We use a combination of sentiment scoring and keyword filtering. We avoid stories that are primarily about conflict, tragedy, political division, or crisis — even when those stories have a positive angle.
Is this politically neutral? — Yes, intentionally. Our politics filter removes stories from both sides of the aisle. Good news has no party affiliation.