newsnow
CLI tool to fetch trending news and hot topics from 66 sources across 44 platforms. Returns structured news items with titles, URLs, and metadata. USE FOR: -...
chencheng (云谦)
@sorrycc
What This Skill Does
Command-line tool that fetches trending news and hot topics from 66 sources across 44 platforms, returning structured JSON items with titles, URLs, and metadata. Supports Chinese and international platforms across tech, finance, social, and general news categories.
Replaces manually checking multiple news sites and social platforms by aggregating trending content from 66 sources into a single CLI command with consistent JSON output.
When to Use It
- Monitor trending tech news from Hacker News, GitHub, and V2EX in one command
- Track Chinese social media hot topics from Weibo, Douyin, and Bilibili
- Fetch financial news and market updates from Wall Street CN, Xueqiu, and CLS
- Get structured JSON news data for integration into dashboards or data pipelines
- List all available news sources to discover new platforms for monitoring
Install
$ openclaw skills install @sorrycc/newsnownewsnow CLI
Fetch trending news and hot topics from 66 sources across 44 platforms. Returns news items with title, URL, and optional metadata.
Run newsnow --help for usage details.
Workflow
Follow this pattern:
- List - Don't know what sources are available? List them first.
- Fetch - Know the source? Fetch news directly.
- JSON - Need structured data? Add
--jsonfor machine-readable output.
| Need | Command | When |
|---|---|---|
| See all sources | newsnow list | Don't know source names |
| See sources as JSON | newsnow list --json | Need source list programmatically |
| Get news | newsnow <source> | Know the source, want readable output |
| Get news as JSON | newsnow <source> --json | Need structured data for processing |
Commands
list
List all available sources.
newsnow list
newsnow list --json
Fetch a source
newsnow hackernews
newsnow hackernews --json
Output fields (JSON mode):
id- Unique item identifiertitle- News headlineurl- Link to the article (optional)pubDate- Publication date (optional)extra- Additional metadata like view counts, comments (optional)
Sources
66 source endpoints across 44 platforms:
| Platform | Sources |
|---|---|
| 36kr | 36kr, 36kr-quick, 36kr-renqi |
| Baidu | baidu |
| Bilibili | bilibili, bilibili-hot-search, bilibili-hot-video, bilibili-ranking |
| Cankaoxiaoxi | cankaoxiaoxi |
| Chongbuluo | chongbuluo, chongbuluo-hot, chongbuluo-latest |
| CLS | cls, cls-telegraph, cls-depth, cls-hot |
| Coolapk | coolapk |
| Douban | douban |
| Douyin | douyin |
| Fastbull | fastbull, fastbull-express, fastbull-news |
| FreeBuf | freebuf |
| Gelonghui | gelonghui |
| Ghxi | ghxi |
| GitHub | github, github-trending-today |
| Hacker News | hackernews |
| Hupu | hupu |
| iFeng | ifeng |
| iQIYI | iqiyi-hot-ranklist |
| ITHome | ithome |
| Jin10 | jin10 |
| Juejin | juejin |
| Kaopu | kaopu |
| Kuaishou | kuaishou |
| LinuxDo | linuxdo, linuxdo-latest, linuxdo-hot |
| MktNews | mktnews, mktnews-flash |
| Nowcoder | nowcoder |
| PCBeta | pcbeta-windows, pcbeta-windows11 |
| Product Hunt | producthunt |
| QQ Video | qqvideo-tv-hotsearch |
| SMZDM | smzdm |
| Solidot | solidot |
| Sputnik News CN | sputniknewscn |
| SSPai | sspai |
| Steam | steam |
| Tencent | tencent-hot |
| The Paper | thepaper |
| Tieba | tieba |
| Toutiao | toutiao |
| V2EX | v2ex, v2ex-share |
| Wall Street CN | wallstreetcn, wallstreetcn-quick, wallstreetcn-news, wallstreetcn-hot |
weibo | |
| Xueqiu | xueqiu, xueqiu-hotstock |
| Zaobao | zaobao |
| Zhihu | zhihu |
Source Selection Guide
| Category | Recommended Sources |
|---|---|
| Tech | hackernews, github, v2ex, juejin, ithome, linuxdo |
| Finance | xueqiu, wallstreetcn, cls, jin10, gelonghui, fastbull |
| General News | toutiao, baidu, thepaper, ifeng, zaobao, cankaoxiaoxi |
| Social/Trending | weibo, douyin, bilibili, zhihu, tieba, douban |
| Security | freebuf |
| Product/Design | producthunt, sspai |
Environment Variables
PRODUCTHUNT_API_TOKEN- Required forproducthuntsource
Known Limitations
linuxdo,linuxdo-latest,linuxdo-hotmay return 403 Forbidden (Cloudflare)- Some Chinese sources may be inaccessible from outside mainland China
Working with Results
newsnow hackernews --json | jq '.[].title'
newsnow hackernews --json | jq '.[:5]'
newsnow weibo --json | jq '.[] | "\(.title) \(.url)"'
Top skills in this category
Playwright (Automation + MCP + Scraper)
@ivangdavilaAutomates, tests, and debugs browsers with Playwright: locators, auto-waiting, traces, CI runs, and MCP browser control. Use when a test is flaky, times out, or fails only in CI or headless; when a locator matches multiple elements or the wrong one (strict mode violation); when clicks need force, waits become sleeps, or networkidle never settles; for storageState and login setup, request mocking and HAR replay, uploads and downloads, iframes and shadow DOM, popups and dialogs, screenshot diffs that change per machine, trace and report artifacts, sharding a slow suite, device and permission emulation, accessibility checks, driving a real browser through Playwright MCP, extracting data from JS-rendered pages, or porting a Cypress, Puppeteer, or Selenium suite to Playwright. Not for maintaining an existing Cypress or Puppeteer suite (cypress, puppeteer) or for work a plain HTTP request answers (http).
Scrapling Official Skill
@d4vinciScrape web pages using Scrapling with anti-bot bypass (like Cloudflare Turnstile), stealth headless browsing, spiders framework, adaptive scraping, and JavaScript rendering. Use when asked to scrape, crawl, or extract data from websites; web_fetch fails; the site has anti-bot protections; write Pyth
Agent Browser Core
@codedao12OpenClaw skill for the agent-browser CLI (Rust-based with Node.js fallback) enabling AI-friendly web automation with snapshots, refs, and structured commands.
Polymarket
@mvanhornQuery and trade on Polymarket prediction markets — check odds, trending markets, search events, view order books, place trades, and manage positions. Now ava...
Last30days Skill
@mvanhornResearch what people actually say about any topic in the last 30 days. Pulls posts and engagement from Reddit, X, YouTube, TikTok, Hacker News, Polymarket, G...