Media News Digest

Generate media & entertainment industry news digests. Covers Hollywood trades (THR, Deadline, Variety), box office, streaming, awards season, film festivals,...

Automated media & entertainment industry news digest system. Covers Hollywood trades, box office, streaming platforms, awards season, film festivals, production news, and industry deals.

Quick Start

1. Generate Digest (unified pipeline — runs all 4 sources in parallel):

   python3 scripts/run-pipeline.py \
     --defaults <SKILL_DIR>/config/defaults \
     --config <WORKSPACE>/config \
     --hours 48 --freshness pd \
     --archive-dir <WORKSPACE>/archive/media-news-digest/ \
     --output /tmp/md-merged.json --verbose --force
   

2. Use Templates: Apply Discord or email templates to merged output

Data Sources (65 total, 64 enabled)

• RSS Feeds (36, 35 enabled): THR, Deadline, Variety, IndieWire, The Wrap, Collider, Vulture, Awards Daily, Gold Derby, Screen Rant, Empire, The Playlist, /Film, Entertainment Weekly, Roger Ebert, CinemaBlend, Den of Geek, The Direct, MovieWeb, CBR, What's on Netflix, Decider, Anime News Network, and more
• Twitter/X KOLs (18): @THR, @DEADLINE, @Variety, @FilmUpdates, @DiscussingFilm, @BoxOfficeMojo, @MattBelloni, @Borys_Kit, @TheAcademy, @letterboxd, @A24, and more
• Reddit (11): r/movies, r/boxoffice, r/television, r/Oscars, r/TrueFilm, r/entertainment, r/netflix, r/marvelstudios, r/DC_Cinematic, r/anime, r/flicks
• Web Search (9 topics): Brave Search / Tavily with freshness filters

Topics (9 sections)

• 🇨🇳 China / 中国影视 — China mainland box office, Chinese films, Chinese streaming
• 🎬 Production / 制作动态 — New projects, casting, filming updates
• 💰 Deals & Business / 行业交易 — M&A, rights, talent deals
• 🎞️ Upcoming Releases / 北美近期上映 — Theater openings, release dates, trailers
• 🎟️ Box Office / 票房 — NA/global box office, opening weekends
• 📺 Streaming / 流媒体 — Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, HBO, viewership
• 🏆 Awards / 颁奖季 — Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys, BAFTAs
• 🎪 Film Festivals / 电影节 — Cannes, Venice, TIFF, Sundance, Berlin
• ⭐ Reviews & Buzz / 影评口碑 — Critical reception, RT/Metacritic scores

Scripts Pipeline

Unified Pipeline

python3 scripts/run-pipeline.py \
  --defaults config/defaults --config workspace/config \
  --hours 48 --freshness pd \
  --archive-dir workspace/archive/media-news-digest/ \
  --output /tmp/md-merged.json --verbose --force

• Features: Runs all 4 fetch steps in parallel, then merges + deduplicates + scores
• Output: Final merged JSON ready for report generation (~30s total)
• Flags: --skip rss,twitter to skip steps, --enrich for full-text enrichment

Individual Scripts

• fetch-rss.py — Parallel RSS fetcher (10 workers, 30s timeout, caching)
• fetch-twitter.py — Dual backend: official X API v2 + twitterapi.io (auto fallback, 3-worker concurrency)
• fetch-web.py — Web search via Brave (multi-key rotation) or Tavily
• fetch-reddit.py — Reddit public JSON API (4 workers, no auth)
• merge-sources.py — Quality scoring, URL dedup, multi-source merging
• summarize-merged.py — Structured overview sorted by quality_score
• enrich-articles.py — Full-text enrichment for top articles
• generate-pdf.py — PDF generation with Chinese typography + emoji
• send-email.py — MIME email with HTML body + PDF attachment
• sanitize-html.py — XSS-safe markdown to HTML conversion
• validate-config.py — Configuration validator
• source-health.py — Source health tracking
• config_loader.py — Config overlay loader (defaults + user overrides)
• test-pipeline.sh — Pipeline testing with --only/--skip/--twitter-backend filters

Cron Integration

Reference references/digest-prompt.md in cron prompts.

Daily Digest

MODE = daily, FRESHNESS = pd, RSS_HOURS = 48

Weekly Digest

MODE = weekly, FRESHNESS = pw, RSS_HOURS = 168

Dependencies

All scripts work with Python 3.8+ standard library only. feedparser optional but recommended.