naver-news

What This Skill Does

The naver-news skill for OpenClaw provides a powerful interface for querying South Korea's most prominent news ecosystem. By leveraging the Naver Search API, this skill allows users to perform targeted searches across Korean media outlets. It is designed to handle common news-gathering tasks such as monitoring breaking headlines, aggregating reports on specific industries, or preparing daily summaries of current events. The tool features built-in support for both relevance-based and chronological sorting, as well as robust pagination logic to ensure that your data collection needs are met without manual intervention. Whether you are tracking stock market trends in Seoul or following the latest AI developments in the Korean tech sector, this skill ensures you have access to real-time information.

Installation

To install this skill, use the clawhub command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/steamb23/naver-news. After installation, ensure you have registered for an application key at the Naver Developers portal. Once you have your Client ID and Client Secret, add them to your environment configuration (either in agents.defaults.sandbox.docker.env for sandbox environments or env.vars for host installations). Always double-check your connectivity to the Naver API endpoints to ensure the agent can authenticate properly.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for researchers, market analysts, and automation developers. Key use cases include:

1. Automated News Monitoring: Setting up an agent to scrape headlines every morning to provide a summary of the top stories in a specific sector.
2. Competitive Intelligence: Tracking mentions of your brand or competitors across various Korean news portals.
3. Trend Analysis: Searching for high-volume keywords to identify emerging topics or public sentiment shifts within the Korean language internet.
4. Research Automation: Collecting vast datasets of news articles for NLP tasks or sentiment analysis pipelines.

Example Prompts

• "Search for the latest news on Samsung Electronics from today and provide a short summary of the key points."
• "Find at least 30 news articles related to AI and robotics in Korea, sorted by date, and output the data in JSON format for my report."
• "Give me a summary of today's top economic news headlines using the Naver News search tool."

Tips & Limitations

When using auto-pagination with the --min-results flag, remember that setting high values may increase latency, as the agent must perform sequential API calls. Always ensure your Naver API quota is sufficient for the number of requests you intend to make. Filtering by date (--after) is recommended to reduce noise in your search results. Be aware that the API returns content in Korean, and complex analytical tasks may require an additional language processing step if the agent's primary output language is English.