Automatically fetch, summarize, and analyze the top tech stories and social media sentiment from TechMeme.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install technews
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 technews 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 TechNews?
The TechNews skill transforms how you stay informed by automating the discovery and synthesis of industry-leading tech news. By leveraging Openclaw Skills, this tool monitors TechMeme to identify high-impact stories, fetches full article content, and generates concise summaries. This allows users to maintain a pulse on the industry without the cognitive load of manual curation, providing a streamlined feed of intelligence directly into their AI agent workflow.
TechNews Use Cases
- Obtaining a rapid morning briefing of the top 10 tech stories without leaving your workspace.
- Tracking market sentiment by analyzing social media reactions to major product launches or industry shifts.
- Reducing information overload through AI-generated article summaries and relevance scoring to prioritize high-value content.
How TechNews Works
- Scrapes the TechMeme homepage to locate the currently trending top stories, specifically targeting the top 10 entries by default.
- Retrieves linked article content in parallel to ensure high-speed processing and data collection.
- Applies AI-driven summarization to condense complex articles into digestible 2-3 sentence snapshots.
- Scans for associated social media buzz, specifically highlighting Twitter reactions to provide a broader context of the news.
- Logs activity in a local cache to ensure the same news stories are not presented repeatedly in future sessions.
TechNews Setup
To integrate TechNews into your environment, ensure you are running Python 3.9 or higher. This utility is a core part of the ecosystem of Openclaw Skills and relies on the requests and beautifulsoup4 libraries. Install the required dependencies using the following command:
pip install requests beautifulsoup4
For advanced users, installing tiktoken is recommended to handle token-aware truncation during the summarization phase.
TechNews Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill manages its local state through a dedicated JSON file to track history and maintain a clean user experience.
| Data Component | Path/Logic | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| History Cache | memory/technews_history.json |
Stores previously fetched story IDs to prevent redundant news delivery. |
| Modular Scripts | scripts/ |
Separate modules for scraping, fetching, and summarizing news data. |
| Metadata | Skill Header | Defines the /technews command and agent-specific emoji triggers. |
TechNews Advanced Features
- Multi-stage modular architecture allowing for easy expansion to other sources like Hacker News and Reddit.
- Parallel fetching capabilities to drastically reduce the time needed to aggregate news from multiple domains.
- Token-aware truncation support to optimize article content for different LLM context windows.
- Intelligent relevance scoring that can be tuned to prioritize news based on specific user-defined topic preferences.
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