A high-efficiency news scraper designed to fetch and format the latest financial flash updates from Futu official website.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install futu-flash
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install futu-flash using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Futu Flash?
The Futu Flash skill is a specialized technical utility for Openclaw Skills that enables the automated retrieval of real-time financial news from the Futu Flash (快讯) channel. By communicating directly with the Futu news-site API, it allows developers and automated agents to access the most recent 10 news items without the overhead of rendering a full web page. This skill is essential for users who need timely market data, rolling news refreshes, or automated news monitoring within their workspace.
This integration focuses on reliability and speed, utilizing optimized headers to ensure stable connectivity. It transforms raw API data into structured, human-readable formats, making it a perfect component for financial dashboarding or AI-driven market analysis using Openclaw Skills.
Futu Flash Use Cases
- Automatically fetching the latest 10 news items for a quick market summary.
- Updating a news feed with rolling refreshes to monitor breaking financial events.
- Feeding real-time market sentiment data into an AI analysis pipeline.
- Consolidating financial alerts from multiple sources into a single developer-friendly output.
How Futu Flash Works
- The skill sends a GET request to the Futu API endpoint with a specified page size (maximum 10 items).
- It employs specific request headers, including User-Agent and Referer, to satisfy endpoint requirements.
- The raw JSON response is validated to ensure the return code is successful (code 0).
- News items are extracted from the nested data structure, specifically targeting the title, content, and detail URL fields.
- Unix timestamps are converted to Beijing Time (UTC+8) for consistent chronological reporting.
- The data is formatted as a numbered list and returned to the caller for display or further processing.
Futu Flash Setup
To get started with this skill, ensure you have the necessary environment for running Python-based Openclaw Skills.
# Move to the script directory
cd skills/futu-flash/scripts
# Run the fetcher script to test the connection
python fetch_futu_flash.py
Ensure that your network environment can reach news.futunn.com. No API keys are required as the skill uses public endpoints, but maintaining the provided headers is critical for access.
Futu Flash Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes extracted news into a structured format for easy parsing. Below is the metadata taxonomy used:
| Field | Description | Format |
|---|---|---|
| id | Unique identifier for each news flash | String |
| time | Publication time converted to UTC+8 | YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss |
| title | The headline of the news (if available) | String |
| content | The primary body of the news flash | String |
| detailUrl | Direct link to the full news article | URL |
Output is typically ordered with the most recent news item at the top.
Futu Flash Advanced Features
- Direct API direct-connect strategy to bypass frontend anti-scraping and rendering delays.
- Intelligent content selection that prioritizes the title or falls back to the content body for optimal display.
- Automated Beijing Time (UTC+8) transformation for global development synchronization.
- Built-in error handling for non-JSON responses and non-zero API error codes, ensuring reliability for Openclaw Skills users.
- Strict limit enforcement to prevent over-fetching and maintain API performance.
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