I wonder how effective it is though these days, I'd say 70% of my RSS feeds are either truncated forms of a full article (with a 'click here to continue reading!' link), or just summaries.
Is anyone aware of any repositories where the customization required to obtain the important content is maintained by a community?
If you are interested in working together please reach me out!
You can check what we did here: https://eink.news
CaspianReport
CrashCourse
ExtraCredits
Innuendo Studios
Kurzgesagt
SciShow (and the sub-channels: SciShow Space and SciShow Psych)
PBS Idea Channel (no new videos, but old content is good)
vlogbrothers
Wendover Productions
I'm also developing something similar to your news scraper but with different end goals. I'd love to talk with you about your approaches in that domain as well.
Similarly, I have a self-hosted instance of Tiny Tiny RSS set up with an array of custom scraping plugins to pull all the web comics I follow into one feed, which I consume with the Android client. I'd push this through my Kindle delivery system, but then I'd be stuck reading black-and-white versions of color comics.
Along the same lines, there are a few YouTube channels I subscribe to whose content can be enjoyed nearly as well in audio-only form. As a university student, I do a lot of walking most days to get from place to place, and I fill that time listening to audio content. The same server which runs my news- and comic-gathering systems also watches those YouTube channels, pulls down new videos, converts them to audio, and publishes the results as podcast feeds which I can subscribe to through Pocket Casts on my phone.