technews
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This skill fetches top stories from TechMeme, scrapes linked articles, summarizes them, and highlights social reactions. It makes outbound requests to https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml, https://nitter.net/search, and https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search and writes a cache at ~/.cache/technews/stories.json.
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TechNews Skill for OpenClaw
A OpenClaw skill that fetches top tech stories from TechMeme, summarizes linked articles, and highlights social media reactions.
Features
- 📰 Scrapes top stories from TechMeme.com
- 📝 AI-generated summaries of article content
- 💬 Hacker News integration (shows points and comments)
- 🔥 Extracts notable quotes and "spicy" takes
- ⚡ Parallel fetching for speed
Installation
# Clone or add to your OpenClaw skills
cd /path/to/openclaw/skills
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/technews-skill.git
# Install dependencies
pip install requests beautifulsoup4
Usage
In OpenClaw, simply type:
/technews
This will fetch the top 10 stories and present them with:
- Story titles and links
- AI-generated summaries
- Hacker News engagement data
- Notable quotes and reactions
Architecture
technews/
├── SKILL.md # OpenClaw skill definition
├── README.md # This file
├── scripts/
│ ├── techmeme_scraper.py # Fetches stories from TechMeme
│ ├── article_fetcher.py # Parallel article fetching
│ ├── social_reactions.py # HN and Twitter integration
│ └── technews.py # Main orchestrator
Extending
This skill is designed to be extended to other sources:
/hn- Hacker News top stories/reddit- Reddit tech threads/verge- The Verge coverage/wired- WIRED articles
Add new sources by creating additional scraper modules and updating the orchestrator.
Requirements
- Python 3.9+
requestsbeautifulsoup4- OpenClaw (any recent version)
License
MIT