Clawfeed

What This Skill Does

Clawfeed is an advanced, AI-powered news aggregation and summarization engine designed to filter the noise of the digital landscape. By hooking into Twitter and various RSS feeds, the tool continuously monitors incoming data streams to produce highly structured digests. Users can choose between multiple temporal granularities—4-hour, daily, weekly, or monthly—to stay updated on their specific areas of interest. The system utilizes customizable AI prompts, allowing users to fine-tune exactly how information is parsed, summarized, and presented. Because it runs locally using a lightweight SQLite database managed via the better-sqlite3 native addon, it offers a high degree of privacy and performance without requiring a heavy-duty external database server.

Installation

To integrate Clawfeed into your OpenClaw environment, use the CLI installation command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/kevinho/clawfeed Once installed, ensure you have a Node.js runtime ready. Navigate to the skill directory, install the required packages with npm install, and copy the .env.example file to .env to configure your specific environment. While the skill operates in read-only mode by default, you may optionally provide Google OAuth credentials and an API key if you require advanced features like bookmarking, user-specific sources, or remote digest creation.

Use Cases

Clawfeed is ideal for professionals, researchers, and hobbyists who need to maintain awareness of niche topics without doom-scrolling. Use it to create a personalized 'Tech News Morning Briefing' that aggregates updates from specific technical blogs, or use it to monitor industry trends on Twitter by curating specific accounts into a consolidated weekly report. It is also an excellent tool for content creators who need to stay abreast of current events to produce informed, high-quality commentary on tight schedules.

Example Prompts

1. "OpenClaw, pull the latest daily digest from Clawfeed and highlight the top three trends in AI research from today's sources."
2. "Summarize the past week's activity in the crypto space based on my RSS feeds, focusing specifically on regulatory news."
3. "List all current digests from the last 4 hours and show me any items I have bookmarked for later review."

Tips & Limitations

To get the most out of Clawfeed, spend time refining the templates/digest-prompt.md file; the quality of your digest is directly tied to the clarity of the instructions provided to the AI. Note that while the system is highly performant, heavy reliance on large RSS lists might require careful tuning of your curation rules to avoid information overload. Always ensure your environment variables are correctly mapped if you intend to enable the API features, as the system defaults to a restricted read-only mode for security. Finally, if you are deploying behind a reverse proxy, the provided Caddy configuration snippet is the recommended way to handle the API and static web dashboard routing seamlessly.