spotify-news-digest

Scrape and summarize Spotify-related news from multiple sources (Spotify official blogs, engineering/research/newsroom, TechCrunch, The Verge, Music Business Worldwide, Hacker News, etc.), generate one-sentence Chinese summaries for each article, and format them as a daily/weekly digest with original links. Use this skill when the user asks for Spotify news updates, product/algorithm/engineering briefings, music industry reports, or wants to set up a scheduled Spotify news digest.

Bill Xia@ibillxia

Install

openclaw skills install @ibillxia/spotify-news-digest

Spotify News Digest Skill

Overview

This skill automatically aggregates Spotify-related news from 9+ sources (official Spotify blogs + media + community), deduplicates articles, ranks them by relevance, and delivers a formatted Chinese digest — one-sentence summary per article with the original link.

Key Features:

🎵 Covers Spotify's full content ecosystem (Engineering, Newsroom, Research, Design)
📰 Pulls media coverage from TechCrunch, The Verge, Music Business Worldwide, Forbes
💬 Includes Hacker News community discussions via Algolia API
🔍 DDG News search fallback ensures coverage even when RSS is restricted
🧹 Title-similarity deduplication (threshold: 0.65)
📊 Multi-factor ranking: source authority + recency + community score
🤖 One-sentence Chinese summaries generated by LLM at render time
⏰ Configurable time range (hours or days)

⚠️ Security Notes

Read this before scheduling or running in any environment with internal network access.

TLS verification is enabled. The fetcher uses verify=True on all HTTP requests. Do not add any ssl._create_default_https_context overrides.
Domain allowlist enforced for search results. DDG News results are filtered through ALLOWED_DDG_DOMAINS (defined at the top of scripts/fetch_spotify_news.py). Only well-known public news domains pass; internal hostnames are rejected. Review and edit that list before running in sensitive environments.
RSS sources are explicit and fixed. The base sources in config/sources.json are official Spotify feeds and a few trusted media outlets. Do not add intranet or metadata-service URLs to sources.json.
Run in isolation when scheduling. If you plan to schedule this skill, run it in a container or VM that has no access to internal services or secrets. A mis-configured DDG result that slips through would otherwise reach your internal network.
Audit pip dependencies before installing in production: feedparser, beautifulsoup4, requests, python-dateutil, ddgs.
Cron delivery scope. When you ask OpenClaw to schedule this skill, it creates an isolated agentTurn cron job. Confirm the target channel is a group/recipient you intend before confirming the job.

Quick Start

One-Time Digest (Last 24 Hours)

bash

cd /projects/.openclaw/skills/spotify-news-digest
python3 scripts/generate_digest.py

Last 7 Days (Broader Coverage)

bash

python3 scripts/generate_digest.py --hours 168

Save to Markdown File

bash

python3 scripts/generate_digest.py --hours 24 --output /tmp/spotify_digest.md

News Sources

Source	Type	URL / Method	Category
Spotify Engineering Blog	RSS	`engineering.atspotify.com/feed/`	official
Spotify Newsroom	RSS	`newsroom.spotify.com/feed/`	official
Spotify Research	RSS	`research.atspotify.com/feed/`	research
Spotify Design	RSS	`spotify.design/feed`	design
TechCrunch Spotify	RSS	`techcrunch.com/tag/spotify/feed/`	media
The Verge (filtered)	RSS	Verge full feed + keyword filter	media
Hacker News Spotify	Algolia API	`hn.algolia.com` query=spotify	community
DDG News Search	DDGS API	5 queries × 8 results	media/official

Note: Music Business Worldwide and Billboard RSS feeds have high latency and are disabled by default (_disabled: true in sources.json). Their articles are captured via DDG News Search instead.

Output Format

Each digest is grouped by category with one-sentence Chinese summaries:

text

🎵 Spotify 新闻日报 · YYYY-MM-DD
共 N 条（去重后）
─────────────────────────────

🎵 官方动态（N 条）
· [一句话中文总结]（Source Name）
  🔗 https://...

📰 媒体报道（N 条）
· [一句话中文总结]（Source Name）
  🔗 https://...

🔬 技术研究（N 条）
· ...

─────────────────────────────
🤖 由 OpenClaw · spotify-news-digest 自动生成

Category Labels

Category Key	Display Label
`official`	🎵 官方动态
`research`	🔬 技术研究
`design`	🎨 产品设计
`media`	📰 媒体报道
`community`	💬 社区讨论
`industry`	🏭 行业资讯

Usage Examples

1. As Python Module

python

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '/projects/.openclaw/skills/spotify-news-digest/scripts')

from fetch_spotify_news import SpotifyNewsFetcher
from process_spotify_news import SpotifyNewsProcessor, format_digest

# Fetch articles from the last 48 hours
articles = SpotifyNewsFetcher().fetch_all(hours=48)
print(f"Fetched {len(articles)} articles")

# Deduplicate, score, and group by category
result = SpotifyNewsProcessor().process(articles, max_output=20)

# Render Markdown digest
md = format_digest(result, date_str='2026-03-17')
print(md)

2. LLM-Enhanced Summaries (Recommended)

The format_digest() function outputs [English Title] placeholders when no zh_summary is set on an article. The calling LLM should:

Run generate_digest.py to get the raw structured result
For each article, read title + summary and generate a one-sentence Chinese summary
Set item['zh_summary'] before calling format_digest()

This two-step flow keeps the scraping fast and the summarization accurate.

python

# Example: LLM fills zh_summary before formatting
for cat_items in result.values():
    for item in cat_items:
        item['zh_summary'] = llm_summarize_zh(item['title'], item['summary'])

digest = format_digest(result)

3. Scheduled Daily Digest (Cron via OpenClaw)

Ask OpenClaw to set up a daily cron job:

"每天上午 10 点发一份 Spotify 新闻日报到 [群/频道]"

OpenClaw will create an isolated agentTurn cron job that:

Runs this skill
Generates Chinese summaries with LLM
Posts the digest to the specified channel

Configuration

Add / Remove Sources

Edit config/sources.json:

json

{
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "My Custom Source",
      "type": "rss",
      "url": "https://example.com/feed/",
      "language": "en",
      "category": "media",
      "keyword_filter": "spotify"
    }
  ],
  "settings": {
    "max_news_per_source": 15,
    "final_output_count": 20,
    "similarity_threshold": 0.65,
    "timeout": 12,
    "keyword_filter_default": "spotify"
  }
}

keyword_filter: When set, only articles containing this keyword (case-insensitive) in title or summary are included. Leave empty for official Spotify feeds that are already Spotify-only.

_disabled: true: Mark a source to skip it at runtime without deleting it.

Security: Only add public news domains to sources.json. Do not add intranet, VPN, or cloud metadata URLs — they could be fetched directly via RSS without domain-allowlist filtering.

Extend the DDG Domain Allowlist

If you add sources that are reachable via DDG News search (not RSS), also add their domain to ALLOWED_DDG_DOMAINS near the top of scripts/fetch_spotify_news.py:

python

ALLOWED_DDG_DOMAINS: tuple = (
    'atspotify.com',
    'techcrunch.com',
    ...
    'your-new-domain.com',  # ← add here
)

Tune Deduplication

In scripts/process_spotify_news.py:

python

processor = SpotifyNewsProcessor(similarity_threshold=0.65)
# 0.5 = aggressive dedup | 0.8 = loose dedup

Tune Source Authority Weights

In process_spotify_news.py, edit source_weight:

python

source_weight = {
    'Spotify Engineering Blog': 90,
    'Spotify Newsroom': 80,
    'TechCrunch': 60,
    # Add your custom sources here
}

Command-Line Reference

text

python3 scripts/generate_digest.py [OPTIONS]

Options:
  --hours N     Time range in hours (default: 24)
  --max N       Max articles to output after dedup (default: 20)
  --output PATH Save Markdown digest to file

text

python3 scripts/fetch_spotify_news.py [OPTIONS]

Options:
  --hours N     Fetch articles published within last N hours

Troubleshooting

No articles fetched (0 条)

Most likely a network restriction on RSS endpoints.

bash

# Test direct RSS access
curl -I https://engineering.atspotify.com/feed/

# Test DDG search fallback
python3 -c "
from ddgs import DDGS
with DDGS() as d:
    r = list(d.news('spotify new feature', max_results=3, timelimit='w'))
    print(r)
"

If RSS is blocked but DDG works, the skill will still return results via the search fallback. This is normal in restricted network environments.

`ddgs` not installed

bash

pip3 install ddgs

duckduckgo-search (older package name) is also supported as a fallback.

Slow fetch / timeout

Sources with slow RSS feeds are marked _disabled: true in sources.json. To disable an additional slow source:

json

{ "name": "...", "_disabled": true, ... }

Too many duplicate articles

Lower the similarity threshold:

python

SpotifyNewsProcessor(similarity_threshold=0.5)

Articles missing Chinese summary

The format_digest() function wraps untranslated titles in [brackets]. This is intentional — the LLM caller should fill zh_summary before rendering. See Usage Examples → LLM-Enhanced Summaries above.

File Structure

text

spotify-news-digest/
├── SKILL.md                    ← You are here
├── config/
│   └── sources.json            ← News source definitions & settings
├── scripts/
│   ├── fetch_spotify_news.py   ← Multi-source fetcher (RSS + DDG)
│   ├── process_spotify_news.py ← Dedup, scoring, formatting
│   └── generate_digest.py      ← CLI entry point (fetch → process → print)
└── references/
    └── (reserved for future API reference docs)

Dependencies

bash

pip3 install feedparser beautifulsoup4 requests python-dateutil ddgs

Package	Purpose
`feedparser`	RSS feed parsing
`beautifulsoup4`	HTML summary cleanup
`requests`	HTTP requests for RSS
`python-dateutil`	Robust date parsing
`ddgs`	DuckDuckGo News search fallback

Python: 3.8+

Design Notes

Why DDG News over site-specific scrapers? RSS feeds from Spotify blogs occasionally return 0 results due to network restrictions. DDG News search provides a reliable fallback that requires no authentication and respects timelimit for recency filtering.
Why one-sentence Chinese summaries? The target audience (WeChat Work groups) prefers dense, scannable content. English titles are preserved in the source data so users can verify accuracy.
Why not store summaries? Summaries are generated at render time by the calling LLM, keeping the skill stateless and reproducible.

Changelog

Version	Date	Changes
1.1.0	2026-07-14	Security: remove SSL bypass, add domain allowlist for DDG results, explicit verify=True on all requests, updated security guidance
1.0.0	2026-03-17	Initial release: RSS + DDG, 9 sources, category grouping, Chinese summary support

spotify-news-digest

Install

Spotify News Digest Skill

Overview

⚠️ Security Notes

Quick Start

One-Time Digest (Last 24 Hours)

Last 7 Days (Broader Coverage)

Save to Markdown File

News Sources

Output Format

Category Labels

Usage Examples

1. As Python Module

2. LLM-Enhanced Summaries (Recommended)

3. Scheduled Daily Digest (Cron via OpenClaw)

Configuration

Add / Remove Sources

Extend the DDG Domain Allowlist

Tune Deduplication

Tune Source Authority Weights

Command-Line Reference

Troubleshooting

No articles fetched (0 条)

ddgs not installed

Slow fetch / timeout

Too many duplicate articles

Articles missing Chinese summary

File Structure

Dependencies

Design Notes

Changelog

Related skills

`ddgs` not installed