news-summary

This skill should be used when the user asks for news updates, daily briefings, or what's happening in the world. Fetches news from trusted international RSS…

INSTALLATION
npx skills add https://github.com/sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills --skill news-summary
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SKILL.md

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Technology

curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml"

### Reuters

World news

curl -s "https://www.reutersagency.com/feed/?best-regions=world&post_type=best"


### NPR (US perspective)

curl -s "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml"


### Al Jazeera (Global South perspective)

curl -s "https://www.aljazeera.com/xml/rss/all.xml"


## Parse RSS

Extract titles and descriptions:

curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml" | \

grep -E "<title>|<description>" | \

sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | \

sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | \

head -30


## Workflow

### Text summary

- Fetch BBC world headlines

- Optionally supplement with Reuters/NPR

- Summarize key stories

- Group by region or topic

### Voice summary

- Create text summary

- Generate voice with OpenAI TTS

- Send as audio message

curl -s https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/speech \

-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \

-H "Content-Type: application/json" \

-d '{

"model": "tts-1-hd",

"input": "<news summary text>",

"voice": "onyx",

"speed": 0.95

}' \

--output /tmp/news.mp3


## Example Output Format

📰 News Summary [date]

🌍 WORLD

  • [headline 1]
  • [headline 2]

💼 BUSINESS

  • [headline 1]

💻 TECH

  • [headline 1]
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