Project Overview

Vegas Player News is a Las Vegas–focused digital media platform aggregating news, live casino cam feeds, trending social content, and an interactive property map — all powered by automated AI-assisted pipelines. The platform features a multi-model AI commentary system that generates unique editorial voice across articles, a rotating live webcam section pulling real-time feeds from Strip properties, a trending topics engine drawing from YouTube, Reddit, and Google Trends, and a newspaper-style homepage with promotional sidebar. Built as a standalone Dockerized Next.js application with SQLite for rapid deployment.

Next.jsTypeScriptSQLite Anthropic Claude APIDockerLeaflet Maps RSS AggregationGoogle Trends APICheerio Scraping Tailwind CSSLinux VPS / PM2AWS S3

By the Numbers

30+

News
Sources

Live

Casino
Cam Feeds

Multi

AI Agent
System

Daily

Cron
Ingest

Docker

Containerized
Deploy

Platform Features

AI-Powered News Pipeline

RSS aggregation from 30+ Las Vegas and gaming news sources
Multi-model AI commentary system generating editorial voice per article
Automated daily ingest via cron — categorization and tagging
Newspaper-style homepage layout with 3-column grid and sidebar
Article modal viewer with social share and source attribution
Trending topics filter showing hot searches across Vegas audiences

Live Cams & Interactive Map

Rotating live webcam section with real-time Strip property feeds
Interactive Leaflet map of Las Vegas casino properties
Property detail markers with ratings, links, and amenity info
Vegas directory preview section with property profiles
Social media feed integration (Instagram embeds)
YouTube influencer section — top Vegas content creators

Trending Intelligence Engine

Google Trends API integration for real-time Vegas search trends
Reddit signal processing for viral gaming/casino content
YouTube trending keyword extraction for Vegas topics
Trend scoring and decay algorithm for homepage ranking
Promotions system for operator-sponsored content slots
Email capture modal (10s delay) for subscriber growth

Infrastructure & SEO

Dockerized deployment with docker-compose — isolated from other VPS processes
SQLite database — zero-config, fast reads for media-heavy content
AWS S3 integration for image storage and CDN delivery
SEO-structured article pages with Open Graph and Twitter cards
Cloudflare CDN with cache purge automation on deploys
Node-fetch + Cheerio for supplemental scraping pipelines

Technology Stack

Frontend

Next.js · React · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · Leaflet / React-Leaflet · Lucide Icons · Newspaper-style layout components

Backend & Data

SQLite (better-sqlite3) · Anthropic Claude API · rss-parser · Cheerio · node-fetch · Google Trends API · Dotenv

Media & Cloud

AWS S3 (image storage) · Live webcam embeds · YouTube iframe API · Instagram oEmbed · Google Trends integration

Infrastructure

Docker + docker-compose · Linux VPS · PM2 · Nginx · Cloudflare CDN + cache purge · SSL · Daily cron pipelines

Key Deliverables

Automated RSS pipeline ingesting 30+ Vegas/gaming sources with AI commentary generation
Multi-model AI editorial system producing unique voice across all article categories
Live casino webcam section with rotating Strip property feeds
Trending topics engine pulling from Google Trends, Reddit, and YouTube signals
Interactive Leaflet map of Las Vegas casino properties with detail overlays
Dockerized deployment — isolated, portable, zero-config database (SQLite)
AWS S3 image storage with Cloudflare CDN delivery for media performance
Email capture popup with promotional sidebar for operator-sponsored placements