News Monitor

News Monitor keeps your AI agent informed about breaking developments in any domain. Configure keyword lists — brand names, competitor names, industry terms, stock tickers — and the skill continuously polls NewsAPI's index of 150,000+ global sources to detect matching stories as they publish.

Alerts can be delivered in multiple formats: instant push to Telegram or Slack when a high-priority keyword fires, or a daily digest email summarizing everything from the past 24 hours. You control alert thresholds — set minimum source authority scores to filter out low-quality outlets and focus on Reuters, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, or whichever tier-1 sources matter for your workflow.

The skill also performs basic sentiment analysis on each article, tagging results as positive, negative, or neutral for your monitored keywords. This lets you track brand perception shifts in real time. Historical search covers the past 30 days so you can backfill context when setting up a new keyword. A NewsAPI.org key is required — the free Developer plan covers 100 requests per day, enough for monitoring up to 5 keyword clusters on hourly schedules. PR teams, investors, and competitive intelligence analysts use this skill to stay ahead of the news cycle without manual RSS trawling.

Installation

clawhub install news-monitor

Install: clawhub install news-monitor