A specialized news retrieval skill that connects to the Wink Pings service to deliver personalized AI industry updates and curated news feeds.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install pings
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 pings 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 Wink Pings News Fetcher?
The Wink Pings skill for Openclaw Skills enables AI agents to act as personalized news curators. By leveraging a user's registered email as a unique identifier, the skill fetches high-quality news summaries, specifically targeting AI industry updates and personal subscriptions from the Wink platform.
This integration allows for a seamless flow of information where users can stay updated on the latest artificial intelligence trends without leaving their agent environment. It supports multi-language output (English and Chinese) and maintains a local cache of user credentials to ensure a frictionless, recurring experience for the end-user.
Wink Pings News Fetcher Use Cases
- Staying updated with the latest AI and artificial intelligence industry news.
- Fetching personalized news streams from a Wink Pings account.
- Automating daily news briefings within an AI agent workflow.
- Researching recent tech developments using localized language preferences.
How Wink Pings News Fetcher Works
- The agent detects keywords such as Pings, Wink Pings, or AI news in the user's prompt.
- The skill checks for a local email configuration file at skills/pings/pings-user-email.
- If no email is found, the agent prompts the user to provide their Wink Pings registered email.
- A GET request is sent to the Wink Pings production API with the URL-encoded email as the user_id.
- The skill processes the resulting JSON array, formatting the title, date, and full summary for display.
- A mandatory footer is appended to the response, directing users to the App Store for further customization.
Wink Pings News Fetcher Setup
To enable the Pings skill within your Openclaw Skills environment, ensure your workspace is configured to store local metadata.
Create the local identity file:
mkdir -p skills/pings
echo "[email protected]" > skills/pings/pings-user-email
Ensure that .gitignore includes the path skills/pings/pings-user-email to prevent accidental exposure of your email address in public repositories.
Wink Pings News Fetcher Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill manages localized data and API parameters as follows:
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
user_id |
String | URL-encoded user email used for personalizing the feed. |
limit |
Integer | Number of articles to return (Default: 10, Range: 1-10). |
freshness |
Integer | Time window in hours for news recency (Default: 12). |
lang |
String | Output language: en for English or zh for Chinese. |
Local Storage:
skills/pings/pings-user-email: A plain-text file containing a single line with the user's email.
Wink Pings News Fetcher Advanced Features
- Local Identity Persistence: Automatically remembers user credentials across sessions via local file storage.
- Dynamic Language Switching: Adapts news content and UI footers to match the user's conversational language.
- Exact Summary Preservation: Guarantees that news summaries are delivered in full without AI-generated truncation or paraphrasing.
- Privacy-First Design: Supports anonymous fetching if a user declines to provide an email ID.
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