News Summary

Pulls headlines from BBC, Reuters, NPR, and Al Jazeera RSS feeds and formats them into categorized summaries by region or topic. The workflow is straightforward: grep the XML for titles and descriptions, clean it up with sed, then present it as either text or generate an audio briefing with OpenAI's TTS API. It defaults to BBC world news but lets you mix in other sources for balance. The voice option is a nice touch if you want a morning briefing you can actually listen to while making coffee. Keeps things to five to eight stories max, which feels about right for staying informed without drowning in headlines. The bash parsing is basic but gets the job done without external dependencies.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills --skill news-summary --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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News Summary

Overview

Fetch and summarize news from trusted international sources via RSS feeds.

RSS Feeds

BBC (Primary)

# World news
curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml"

# Top stories
curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml"

# Business
curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/business/rss.xml"

# Technology
curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml"

Reuters

# World news
curl -s "https://www.reutersagency.com/feed/?best-regions=world&post_type=best"

NPR (US perspective)

curl -s "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml"

Al Jazeera (Global South perspective)

curl -s "https://www.aljazeera.com/xml/rss/all.xml"

Parse RSS

Extract titles and descriptions:

curl -s "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml" | \
  grep -E "<title>|<description>" | \
  sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | \
  sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | \
  head -30