Setup & Installation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
What This Skill Does
CLI tool for fetching trending news and hot topics from 66 source endpoints across 44 platforms. Returns structured items with titles, URLs, and optional metadata like view counts and publication dates. Covers Chinese and international tech, finance, news, and social media sources.
A single CLI covers 44 platforms with a consistent JSON schema, eliminating the need to write and maintain separate scrapers for each source.
When to use it
- Checking what topics are trending on Weibo or Douyin right now
- Pulling Hacker News front page into a script for further processing
- Monitoring GitHub trending repos alongside Chinese dev community topics
- Aggregating finance news from multiple sources like Xueqiu and Wall Street CN
- Building a daily news digest by fetching JSON output from several sources
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
User asks: get the top 5 Hacker News stories as structured data
- 1Run `newsnow hackernews --json` to fetch current front page items
- 2Pipe output through `jq '.[:5]'` to slice the first 5 results
- 3Extract titles and URLs with `jq '.[] | {title, url}'`
A JSON array of 5 objects each containing title and url fields
Requirements
Accounts, API keys, or tools you or your AI assistant may need to set up while using this skill.