News Summary

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This skill should be used when the user asks for news updates, daily briefings, or what's happening in the world. Fetches news from trusted international RSS feeds and can create voice summaries.

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What this skill tells your AI

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Overview

Fetch and summarize news from trusted international sources via RSS feeds.

RSS Feeds

BBC (Primary)

# World news
curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml"

# Top stories
curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml"

# Business
curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/business/rss.xml"

# Technology
curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml"

Reuters

# World news
curl -s "https://www.reutersagency.com/feed/?best-regions=world&post_type=best"

NPR (US perspective)

curl -s "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml"

Al Jazeera (Global South perspective)

curl -s "https://www.aljazeera.com/xml/rss/all.xml"

Parse RSS

Extract titles and descriptions:

curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml" | \
  grep -E "<title>|<description>" | \
  sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | \
  sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | \
  head -30

Workflow

Text summary

Fetch BBC world headlines
Optionally supplement with Reuters/NPR
Summarize key stories
Group by region or topic

Voice summary

Create text summary
Generate voice with OpenAI TTS
Send as audio message

curl -s https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/speech \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "tts-1-hd",
    "input": "<news summary text>",
    "voice": "onyx",
    "speed": 0.95
  }' \
  --output /tmp/news.mp3

Example Output Format

📰 News Summary [date]

🌍 WORLD
- [headline 1]
- [headline 2]

💼 BUSINESS
- [headline 1]

💻 TECH
- [headline 1]

Best Practices

Keep summaries concise (5-8 top stories)
Prioritize breaking news and major events
For voice: ~2 minutes max
Balance perspectives (Western + Global South)
Cite source if asked

Signals

GitHub stars: 2k
Forks: 325
Last commit: Jul 2026

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Key: news-summary
Source: github.com/leoyeai/openclaw-master-skills

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