technews
GitHub通过命令获取 TechMeme 热门科技新闻,自动抓取并总结文章内容,同时聚合社交媒体上的相关讨论与反应,为用户提供全面的科技资讯概览。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add viralcode/openwhale --skill technews -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "technews",
"metadata": {
"openclaw": {
"emoji": "📰"
}
},
"description": "Fetches top stories from TechMeme, summarizes linked articles, and highlights social media reactions. Use when user wants tech news or says \/technews."
}
TechNews Skill
Fetches top stories from TechMeme, summarizes linked articles, and highlights social media buzz.
Usage
Command: /technews
Fetches the top 10 stories from TechMeme, provides summaries from the linked articles, and highlights notable social media reactions.
Setup
This skill requires:
- Python 3.9+
requestsandbeautifulsoup4packages- Optional:
tiktokenfor token-aware truncation
Install dependencies:
pip install requests beautifulsoup4
Architecture
The skill works in three stages:
- Scrape TechMeme —
scripts/techmeme_scraper.pyfetches and parses top stories - Fetch Articles —
scripts/article_fetcher.pyretrieves article content in parallel - Summarize —
scripts/summarizer.pygenerates summaries and finds social reactions
Commands
/technews
Fetches and presents top tech news stories.
Output includes:
- Story title and original link
- AI-generated summary
- Social media highlights (Twitter reactions)
- Relevance score based on topic preferences
How It Works
- Scrapes TechMeme's homepage for top stories (by default, top 10)
- For each story, fetches the linked article
- Generates a concise summary (2-3 sentences)
- Checks for notable social media reactions
- Presents results in a clean, readable format
State
<workspace>/memory/technews_history.json— cache of recently fetched stories to avoid repeats
Examples
/technews— Get the latest tech news summary
Future Expansion
This skill is designed to be extended to other sources:
- Hacker News (
/hn) - Reddit (
/reddit) - Other tech news aggregators
The modular architecture allows adding new source handlers without changing core functionality.
Version History
- 238a4b1 Current 2026-08-20 08:22


