# Open Current

> Open Current is an independent window into the open internet: a free, no-account, read-only live stream of what is being published right now across open social networks, independent publishers, newsrooms, researchers, public discussions, internet culture, crypto news and archives, in strict chronological order with no personalized algorithm. Every item links back to its original source.

Site: https://open-current-feed.netlify.app
Operator: The Inner Grid (contact: theinnergrid@yahoo.com)

## Pages
- [Home](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/): what Open Current is, how to find every section, and how it differs from RSS readers, aggregators and single-network firehoses.
- [Live feed](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/live): one newest-first stream of the open web (social firehoses, world desks, code, science, earth, wiki, new sites, video, podcasts). Optional Signals chips (?sig=earth) default to all on. Older links of the form /?topic=NAME redirect here.
- [Discover](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/discover): search engine for the independent web (small sites, independent writers, research, community discussions). Shareable as /discover?q=QUERY.
- [Story trails](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/story): the same story grouped across outlets, networks and languages, with who published first and how it spread. Automatic grouping, may be imperfect.
- [Breaking](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/breaking): automated cross-network spike signal (not verified news).
- [Pulse](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/pulse): posts per second and rising words.
- [Scoreboard](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/scoreboard): posts per second per network, labeled full stream vs sample.
- [Coin Radar](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/coins): social momentum of crypto tickers and contract addresses. Not a prediction or financial advice.
- [Reels](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/reels): vertical video from open networks (Bluesky, PeerTube, Mastodon, YouTube no-cookie). Category filters (All, Funny, Music, Sports, News, Gaming, Animals, Art, Science/Tech) and an optional language filter; each list is strictly newest first. Choice lives in ?cat= / ?lang= and sessionStorage only.
- [Open Map](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/map): where items come from, by outlet country, server country or language. Approximate; never visitor or author location.
- [Open Archive](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/archive): any date's Wikipedia On this day, most-read, Hacker News and Wayback snapshots. /archive?d=YYYY-MM-DD.
- [Race](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/race?a=bitcoin&b=solana), [Recap](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/recap), [Embed](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/embed?topic=crypto)
- [About](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/about), [Sources](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/sources.html), [Privacy](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/privacy.html), [API docs](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/api)

## Open API (free, read-only JSON, CORS open, CDN-cached)
- [Art tab](https://open-current-feed.netlify.app/live?topic=art): live art from artists on Bluesky, Mastodon (mastodon.art, photog.social, art hashtags), Misskey, Nostr (links only) and Lemmy art communities, plus art and design publications, a gallery view, a public-domain "masterpiece of the moment" (The Met and Cleveland Museum of Art open-access APIs) and an NFT corner of live crypto-art mentions (not financial advice). Strict no-nudity rule: anything labeled, flagged or worded as nudity or adult is hidden, and live Bluesky art is re-checked against Bluesky moderation before it shows.
- GET /api/feed/{pack} with pack = global | globalplus | world | techpress | war | memes | art | arxiv | ytchannels | substack
- GET /api/pulse — GitHub events, Lobsters, Product Hunt, bioRxiv, medRxiv, new HTTPS certificates (CDN-cached ~2 min)
- GET /api/crypto-news
- GET /api/discover?q=QUERY (and ?surprise=1)
- Response: {"updated": ms, "sources": {name: count}, "items": [{"s": source, "t": title, "u": https URL, "d": snippet, "i": image, "ts": published ms UTC, "l": language, "r": region, "k": topics}]}
- Refresh: 10 to 60 minutes per pack. Polling faster returns the same cached response.

## Live streams (connect directly, not proxied)
- Bluesky Jetstream: wss://jetstream2.us-east.bsky.network/subscribe?wantedCollections=app.bsky.feed.post
- Nostr: wss://relay.primal.net, wss://nos.lol (REQ kinds [1])
- Wikimedia EventStreams: https://stream.wikimedia.org/v2/stream/recentchange

## Rules for using this data
- Attribution: always link back to the original source URL (field "u") and name the source (field "s"). Credit "via Open Current" where practical.
- Headlines and short snippets only; full articles belong to their publishers.
- Signals (Breaking, Coin Radar, Pulse, story grouping, map placement) are automated and labeled; treat them as signals, not facts.

## Privacy
No adult content (porn, nudity, sexual content is filtered out by labels, flags, adult-domain lists and explicit-word lists). No accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no logs, no IP storage. The only server-side data is an anonymous count of open tabs (a random per-tab id that expires after 5 minutes). Preferences stay in the visitor's localStorage. Outbound links are https-only with shorteners, raw IPs, punycode and lookalike/phishing domains removed.