News Daily

Overview

Automated daily news aggregation and delivery system for AI and frontier technology news. Fetches articles from authoritative sources, extracts key information, generates AI-powered summaries of 3-5 top stories, and delivers them via scheduled push notifications.

Key Features:

• Multi-source news aggregation from 5 authoritative tech sites
• AI-powered summarization (3-5 top stories daily)
• Scheduled push notifications (Morning: 8:00, Afternoon: 13:00, Evening: 18:00)
• Telegram and WhatsApp delivery support
• Efficient content processing with web_fetch and web_search tools

Quick Start

Manual News Fetch and Push

For immediate news delivery:

# Fetch and summarize news (outputs to console)
scripts/news-fetcher.sh

# Fetch, summarize, and push to Telegram
scripts/news-fetcher.sh --push telegram

# Fetch, summarize, and push to WhatsApp
scripts/news-fetcher.sh --push whatsapp

Scheduled Delivery

For automated daily delivery, set up cron jobs (see Cron Configuration below).

Workflow

1. News Fetching

The scripts/news-fetcher.sh script performs these steps:

1. Fetch from multiple sources using web_fetch or web_search
2. Extract article data (title, summary, link, publication time)
3. Filter for AI/tech relevance based on keywords and categories
4. Deduplicate articles across sources

2. AI Summarization

After fetching, the script:

1. Sorts by recency and relevance
2. Selects top 3-5 articles for the day
3. Generates concise summaries using the prompt in scripts/news-summarizer.md
4. Formats output with source attribution and timestamps

3. Push Delivery

Formatted news is delivered via:

• Telegram: Uses message tool with Telegram channel
• WhatsApp: Uses message tool with WhatsApp channel

News Sources

Configured in scripts/news-sources.conf:

• 机器之心 (https://www.jiqizhixin.com/) - Leading Chinese AI tech media
• 36氪 (https://36kr.com/) - Tech startup and venture capital news
• TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/) - Global tech industry news
• The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/) - Consumer tech and digital culture
• MIT Technology Review (https://www.technologyreview.org/) - Emerging technology insights

Each source is configured with:

• Base URL
• Article selectors (CSS/XPath)
• Fetch method (web_search or web_fetch)
• Priority and reliability score

Cron Configuration

For scheduled delivery, add to crontab (crontab -e):

# Morning news - 8:00 AM
0 8 * * * /home/aa/clawd/skills/news-daily/news-daily/scripts/news-fetcher.sh --push telegram >> /home/aa/clawd/logs/news-morning.log 2>&1

# Afternoon news - 1:00 PM
0 13 * * * /home/aa/clawd/skills/news-daily/news-daily/scripts/news-fetcher.sh --push telegram >> /home/aa/clawd/logs/news-afternoon.log 2>&1

# Evening news - 6:00 PM
0 18 * * * /home/aa/clawd/skills/news-daily/news-daily/scripts/news-fetcher.sh --push telegram >> /home/aa/clawd/logs/news-evening.log 2>&1

Time zones: Adjust hours based on your local timezone. Crontab uses server local time.

Logs: Ensure log directory exists:

mkdir -p /home/aa/clawd/logs

Interactive setup: Use the cron setup script for guided configuration:

scripts/cron-setup.sh

Configuration

Push Channel Configuration

Edit scripts/config.sh to set your default push channel:

# Default push channel: telegram or whatsapp
DEFAULT_CHANNEL="telegram"

# Telegram chat ID (optional, overrides default)
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=""

# WhatsApp contact ID (optional, overrides default)
WHATSAPP_CONTACT_ID=""

News Source Customization

Edit scripts/news-sources.conf to:

• Add/remove news sources
• Adjust article selectors
• Configure fetch methods
• Set source priorities

Summary Customization

Edit scripts/news-summarizer.md to adjust:

• Summary length
• Selection criteria
• Output format
• Language style

Output Format

Example news summary output:

📰 每日科技早报 | 2025-01-31

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

🤖 GPT-5 即将发布：OpenAI 宣布将于下月推出最新模型
来源：机器之心 | 2小时前
https://www.jiqizhixin.com/article/xxxx

摘要：OpenAI 确认 GPT-5 将于下月正式发布，新模型在推理能力和多模态理解方面有显著提升...

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

🚀 NASA 宣布新一代火星探测器任务
来源：The Verge | 5小时前
https://www.theverge.com/xxxx

摘要：NASA 公布了新一代火星探测器的详细计划，预计将于 2028 年发射...

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

💡 DeepMind 新算法突破蛋白质折叠预测瓶颈
来源：MIT Technology Review | 8小时前
https://www.technologyreview.org/xxxx

摘要：DeepMind 的 AlphaFold 3 在蛋白质结构预测准确率上达到新高度...

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

📊 今日共收集 127 篇文章，精选 3 条重点新闻

Troubleshooting

News fetch fails

• Check internet connectivity
• Verify source URLs in news-sources.conf are accessible
• Review logs in /home/aa/clawd/logs/

Push notification fails

• Verify channel configuration in config.sh
• Check message tool is properly configured
• Ensure Telegram/WhatsApp credentials are valid

Cron jobs not running

• Check crontab with crontab -l
• Verify script paths are absolute
• Check cron logs: grep CRON /var/log/syslog
• Ensure script has execute permissions: chmod +x scripts/news-fetcher.sh

Resources

scripts/news-fetcher.sh

Main script that orchestrates fetching, summarization, and pushing. Accepts arguments:

• --push <channel>: Push to specified channel (telegram/whatsapp)
• --sources <list>: Comma-separated list of sources to fetch
• --articles <n>: Number of articles to summarize (default: 3-5)

scripts/news-summarizer.md

Prompt template for AI-powered news summarization. Includes instructions for:

• Article selection criteria
• Summary formatting
• Source attribution
• Language style (Chinese/English)

scripts/news-sources.conf

Configuration file defining news sources, their URLs, and fetch parameters.

scripts/config.sh

Global configuration for channels, log paths, and defaults.

scripts/cron-setup.sh

Interactive cron job setup script for easy configuration.

scripts/fetch_news.py

Python implementation for news fetching with support for:

• Multiple source configurations
• Keyword-based filtering
• Deduplication
• JSON export

INSTALL.md

Detailed installation and setup guide with troubleshooting.