soulmd-newsletter

Fetches and displays the latest edition from the SoulMD newsletter RSS feed, including title, date, link, and a brief excerpt.

#!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys, json, urllib.request, xml.etree.ElementTree as ET, re from datetime import datetime from pathlib import Path

RSS_URL = "https://buttondown.com/soulmd/rss" SUBSCRIBE_URL = "https://buttondown.com/soulmd" STATE_FILE = Path.home() / ".openclaw" / "soul-md-state.json"

def fetch_rss(): req = urllib.request.Request(RSS_URL, headers={"User-Agent": "soul-md-skill/1.0"}) with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=10) as resp: return resp.read()

def parse_latest(xml_bytes): root = ET.fromstring(xml_bytes) item = root.find("channel/item") if item is None: return None plain = re.sub(r"<[^>]+>", "", item.findtext("description", ""))[:600].strip() return {"title": item.findtext("title","").strip(), "link": item.findtext("link","").strip(), "date": item.findtext("pubDate","").strip(), "excerpt": plain}

def load_state(): return json.loads(STATE_FILE.read_text()) if STATE_FILE.exists() else {}

def save_state(state): STATE_FILE.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) STATE_FILE.write_text(json.dumps(state))

def main(): check_new = "--check-new" in sys.argv try: latest = parse_latest(fetch_rss()) except Exception as e: print(f"Error: {e}", file=sys.stderr); sys.exit(1) if not latest: print("No editions found."); sys.exit(0) if check_new: state = load_state() if latest["link"] == state.get("last_seen_link",""): print("NO_NEW_EDITION"); sys.exit(0) save_state({"last_seen_link": latest["link"], "last_checked": datetime.utcnow().isoformat()}) print(f"TITLE: {latest['title']}\nDATE: {latest['date']}\nLINK: {latest['link']}\nSUBSCRIBE: {SUBSCRIBE_URL}\n\nEXCERPT:\n{latest['excerpt']}")

if name == "main": main()