tech-news-bulletin

Collect latest technology and AI news from RSS feeds AND the TLDR.tech AI newsletter, merge them into a unified daily digest, and send via email.

Collect the latest technology and AI news from two sources:

1. RSS feeds — e.g., TechCrunch, Wired AI, Google AI Blog
2. TLDR.tech AI Newsletter — yesterday's edition, fetched and sanitized automatically

Merge both into a single deduplicated digest and send it to a list of email addresses.

When to use (trigger phrases)

Use this skill immediately when the user asks any of:

• "tech news bulletin"
• "daily tech bulletin"
• "send tech bulletin"
• "run tech bulletin"
• "create tech bulletin"

Workflow

1. Fetch RSS feeds from configured sources
2. Fetch TLDR.tech AI newsletter for the previous day (https://tldr.tech/ai/YYYY-MM-DD)
3. Sanitize TLDR HTML — extract article title, canonical link, and summary; strip sponsor blocks, navigation, footers
4. Merge & deduplicate all articles by URL
5. Sort by date (newest first) and limit to MAX_ARTICLES
6. Summarize each article via Ollama (falls back to the description snippet if unavailable)
7. Build HTML digest with per-article source badges (RSS source name vs. "TLDR AI")
8. Send digest to all configured email addresses via SMTP

Installation

Install required Python packages:

pip install feedparser requests beautifulsoup4

Ensure environment variables are set:

export SMTP_EMAIL="[e-mail]"
export SMTP_PASSWORD="your-app-password"

Configuration

Edit scripts/bulletin.py to customize:

• RSS_FEEDS — list of RSS URL endpoints
• EMAIL_ADDRESSES — recipients for the bulletin
• MAX_ARTICLES — maximum articles in the combined digest (default 15)
• TLDR_BASE_URL — base URL for the TLDR newsletter (default https://tldr.tech/ai/)

The Ollama endpoint is http://172.20.86.203:11434 with model glm-4.7-flash:latest.

Usage

To run the bulletin now:

python3 /home/juniarto/.openclaw/workspace/skills/tech-news-bulletin/scripts/bulletin.py

Check the log output:

tail -f /tmp/openclaw-debug.log

Or let the skill handle it automatically via cron:

openclaw cron add --job='{
  "name": "daily-tech-bulletin",
  "schedule": { "kind": "every", "everyMs": 86400000, "anchorMs": 42000000 },
  "payload": { "kind": "systemEvent", "text": "run-tech-news-bulletin" },
  "sessionTarget": "isolated",
  "enabled": true
}'

Digest Format

Subject: Daily Tech & AI News Bulletin

Body (HTML):

• Header with date and source attribution
• Per article:
  • Linked title
  • Source badge (RSS feed name or "TLDR AI")
  • 1–5 sentence summary

Differences from tech-news-digest

Feature	tech-news-digest	tech-news-bulletin
RSS feeds	✅	✅
TLDR.tech AI newsletter	❌	✅
Source badges in digest	❌	✅
HTML sanitizer (inline)	❌	✅
Combined deduplication	❌	✅

Rules

• Send emails via the SMTP credentials in the environment (SMTP_EMAIL, SMTP_PASSWORD)
• Keep each article summary to 1–5 sentences
• Strip sponsor articles from TLDR content
• Total digest should be readable within ~5 minutes
• TLDR date is always computed as today - 1 day at runtime, so no manual date config is needed