daily-news

What This Skill Does

The Daily News skill is a powerful tool integrated into OpenClaw that allows users to receive curated news summaries from the popular '60s API'. This service provides 15 selected, high-quality news headlines alongside a daily thought-provoking quote. It acts as a bridge between the raw data provided by the API and the user's interface, offering flexible output formats including text, JSON, markdown, and imagery. By leveraging this skill, your AI agent can keep you updated on current global events, historical news, and daily inspiration without requiring manual searches.

Installation

To install this skill, use the OpenClaw command-line interface or the hub manager. Run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/jaceymarvin99/daliy-news Once installed, ensure your environment has the necessary permissions to execute the scripts/news.sh file located within your skill directory.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for users who want a morning briefing or need to stay informed on world news in Chinese. Common scenarios include: requesting a quick daily digest while working, checking on significant events that occurred on a specific historical date for research purposes, or fetching news data in a structured format (JSON) for further processing by another system. It is also ideal for agents tasked with creating daily newsletters or social media summaries.

Example Prompts

1. "OpenClaw, please give me the daily news summary for today in markdown format."
2. "What were the top news headlines on March 1st, 2024?"
3. "Summarize the latest news for me quickly in plain text."

Tips & Limitations

• Token Efficiency: Always default to --encoding markdown unless you specifically need the raw data (JSON) or a hyper-concise version (text). JSON outputs are significantly more token-heavy.
• Image Handling: If the direct image link fails to render in your chat UI, swap the encoding flag to image-proxy to handle the binary data more reliably.
• Historical Limits: The service is best for current events. While it supports date lookups, extremely old archives may be unavailable. If a request returns no data, try checking the previous day.
• Reliability: The API automatically checks the last three days of data, so it is quite robust for recent news inquiries.