Noticias Cangrejo

Fetch and summarize recent news articles from GNews on any topic, generating a concise Markdown digest with date, greeting, and top links.

Generate a Markdown news digest for any topic using the GNews API.

When To Use

Use this skill when the user asks for recent news on any topic, such as politics, science, startups, health, finance, sports, or local events, and wants a concise, linkable summary.

Environment Requirement

Set this environment variable before execution:

• GNEWS_API_KEY

Workflow

1. Receive a topic from the user.
2. Validate that GNEWS_API_KEY exists.
3. Query GNews Search API for up to 20 articles using topic + language.
4. Compute relevance based on topic-word overlap against article title and description.
5. Keep the top 15 ranked articles.
6. Print Markdown output with:
   • Date (YYYY/MM/DD)
   • Greeting line in Spanish
   • Topic line
   • Numbered list of article title + URL
7. Optionally save output to a file with --output.

Execution

Canonical OpenClaw execution is defined in _meta.json under run:

python3 scripts/fetch_news.py "<topic>"

Optional parameters:

• --lang (default: en)
• --max-articles (default: 20)
• --output to write Markdown to a file

Example Usage

export GNEWS_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"
python3 scripts/fetch_news.py "global markets" --lang en --max-articles 20 --output ./markets.md