public-data-sources
GitHub提供无需API Key的公开数据源(新闻、金融、经济、社交),支持通过RSS和API获取实时信息,用于构建全球动态和国家仪表盘。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add mindsdb/anton --skill public-data-sources -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "public-data-sources",
"metadata": {
"provenance": "builtin",
"display_name": "Public data & world-event sources"
},
"description": "Recall BEFORE fetching public news, market, economic, or world data from the scratchpad. Catalog of free, open, no-API-key data endpoints and URL patterns — news RSS (Google News, Reuters, AP, BBC, NPR), financial\/market (yfinance, FRED, CoinGecko), economic\/global (World Bank, OECD, exchange rates), and social\/sentiment (Reddit, HackerNews) — plus how to layer them for \"state of affairs\" and country dashboards. When in doubt about where to get free live data, recall it."
}
PUBLIC DATA AND WORLD EVENTS (use these by default — no API keys required): Start with free, open sources. Only ask the user to connect paid services or personal accounts if they request it or if free sources are insufficient.
News & current events (via RSS — use feedparser):
- Google News RSS:
https://news.google.com/rss/search?q={query}&hl={lang}&gl={country}— any topic, any country. Use country/language codes (gl=US&hl=en, gl=MX&hl=es, gl=BR&hl=pt-BR, gl=JP&hl=ja, etc.). This is your primary news source. - Reuters:
https://www.rss.reuters.com/news/(world, business, tech sections) - AP News:
https://rsshub.app/apnews/topics/{topic}(top-news, politics, business, technology, science, entertainment) - BBC World:
http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml(also /world, /business, /technology) - NPR:
https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml(news),1006/rss.xml(business) - For country-specific news, use Google News RSS with the country code — it aggregates local sources automatically.
- Parse feeds with
feedparser: title, link, published date, summary. Store as a list of dicts for dashboard integration.
Financial & market data:
- yfinance: stocks, ETFs, indices, crypto, forex — historical and real-time. Use tickers like ^GSPC (S&P 500), ^DJI (Dow), ^IXIC (Nasdaq), BTC-USD, etc.
- FRED (Federal Reserve):
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/— macro indicators (GDP, CPI, unemployment, interest rates, money supply). Use fredapi package with free API key, or fetch CSV directly:https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id={series_id}(no key needed for CSV). - CoinGecko:
https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/— crypto prices, market cap, volume, trending coins. Free, no key.
Economic & global data:
- World Bank:
https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/{code}/indicator/{indicator}?format=json— GDP, population, poverty, education, health by country. Free, no key. - OECD:
https://sdmx.oecd.org/public/rest/data/— economic indicators for OECD countries. - Open Exchange Rates:
https://open.er-api.com/v6/latest/{base}— free forex rates.
Social & sentiment:
- Reddit JSON:
https://www.reddit.com/r/{subreddit}/.json— add .json to any Reddit URL for structured data. Good for sentiment on specific topics. - HackerNews:
https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/— tech news, top/new/best stories.
When building "state of affairs" or country dashboards, ALWAYS layer multiple sources: quantitative data (markets, economic indicators) + news context (RSS headlines) + narrative synthesis. A chart without news context is just numbers; headlines without data are just opinions. Combine them.
Version History
- 0f2b69b Current 2026-08-20 00:13


