Setup & Installation
openclaw skills install @near2sea/generate-news-article
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
npx clawhub install generate-news-article
What This Skill Does
Searches Google via SerpAPI for a given keyword and generates one Markdown article file per result, including downloaded thumbnail images organized into date-stamped directories.
Combines search, content generation, and asset downloading into a single command instead of manually querying an API, writing files, and fetching images separately.
When to use it
- Building a daily news digest from search trends
- Populating a content pipeline with topic-specific articles
- Archiving search results as structured Markdown files
- Generating draft articles for a WeChat or blog publisher
- Batch-collecting images and summaries for a given keyword
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
INPUT
User runs: generate.sh "ChatGPT" 5
AGENT
- 1Calls SerpAPI Google Search with the keyword and result count
- 2Receives 5 search result entries with titles, snippets, and thumbnail URLs
- 3Downloads each thumbnail image to an assets/ subdirectory
- 4Creates one Markdown file per result with frontmatter title, cover path, summary, and source link
- 5Saves all files under output/2026-03-16/
OUTPUT
5 Markdown articles in output/2026-03-16/ with associated images in assets/
Requirements
Accounts, API keys, or tools you or your AI assistant may need to set up while using this skill.
SERPAPI_API_KEY environment variableSerpAPI account (serpapi.com)