A comprehensive AI agent skill for fetching, summarizing, and navigating daily news updates and trending articles via specialized APIs.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install newsskill
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 newsskill 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 Daily News Skill?
The Daily News Skill is a powerful extension designed for AI coding agents within the Openclaw Skills ecosystem. It enables agents to programmatically retrieve daily news summaries, query historical news by specific dates, and access in-depth article details including impact analysis.
By integrating this skill, developers can create automated workflows that keep users informed of the latest headlines in sectors like technology, finance, and politics. The skill handles complex tasks such as HTML stripping and popularity-based ranking, making it an essential tool for building sophisticated news-aware applications.
Daily News Skill Use Cases
- Generating automated morning briefings or daily news digests.
- Researching historical events by querying news data from specific past dates.
- Monitoring trending topics and high-heat news stories in real-time.
- Filtering news by specific categories such as technology, finance, or sports for targeted research.
- Extracting clean, readable content from news articles for text analysis within Openclaw Skills.
How Daily News Skill Works
- The AI agent identifies a news-related intent, such as a request for today's headlines or a specific date.
- The skill determines the target date in the required YYYY-MM-DD format.
- A call is made to the Daily News API to fetch a list of articles, including metadata like heat scores and summaries.
- The agent parses the JSON response and presents the top-ranking news items to the user.
- If the user requests a specific article, the agent fetches the detailed content, cleans the HTML tags, and provides a structured summary and impact analysis.
Daily News Skill Setup
To use this skill within your Openclaw Skills environment, ensure you have node and curl installed. You can interact with the news data using the provided scripts:
# Fetch news for the current day
node scripts/get-daily.js
# Fetch news for a specific date
node scripts/get-daily.js 2026-03-10
# Retrieve full details for a specific article by ID
node scripts/get-article.js 8533
Daily News Skill Data Schema & Taxonomy
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| article_id | Integer | Unique identifier for the news article |
| title | String | The headline of the article |
| summary | String | A brief overview of the news story |
| heat | Float | The popularity or trending score of the article |
| category_id | Integer | ID representing the news category (e.g., 5 for Tech) |
| content.story | String | The main body text (HTML tags removed during processing) |
| content.impact | String | Analysis of the story's broader impact |
| publish_time | String | ISO 8601 formatted publication timestamp |
Daily News Skill Advanced Features
- Smart category filtering to isolate news in Entertainment, Politics, Finance, Tech, and more.
- Popularity-based sorting (Heat Ranking) to prioritize high-impact stories.
- Automated HTML-to-Text conversion for cleaner LLM processing and readability.
- Context-aware article retrieval, allowing users to reference news by list index (e.g., "Read the third story").
- Multi-date support for comparative news analysis within the Openclaw Skills framework.
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