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China News Crawler

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nanmicoder·vlatest·marketing·GPL-3.0

This "China News Crawler" gathers Chinese news articles for research and analysis, offering valuable insights into a key global market.

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Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

Installs under a different name. Its SKILL.md names it news-extractor, not the name it is listed under, so the command below uses that name.
  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add nanmicoder/newscrawler --skill news-extractor -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

nanmicoder

Taken from the source listing. We haven't verified who controls this account.

Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 13 hosts that are neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: api.x.com, blog.naver.com, edition.cnn.com, mp.weixin.qq.com, news.detik.com….

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    www.bbc.comundeclarededition.cnn.comundeclarednews.detik.comundeclaredwww.lennysnewsletter.comundeclaredblog.naver.comundeclaredwww.163.comundeclaredwww.sohu.comundeclarednews.qq.comundeclaredx.comundeclaredapi.x.comundeclaredmp.weixin.qq.comundeclaredwww.toutiao.comundeclaredwww.quora.comundeclared

    What it found (3 of 31)

    • .claude/skills/news-extractor/scripts/crawlers/bbc.py:40contacts www.bbc.com
      return "https://www.bbc.com"
    • .claude/skills/news-extractor/scripts/extract_news.py:179contacts www.bbc.com
      print("  - BBC News:          https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c797qlx93j0o")
    • .claude/skills/news-extractor/scripts/crawlers/cnn.py:40contacts edition.cnn.com
      return "https://edition.cnn.com"

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned nanmicoder/newscrawler at 25fb3b4a20.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
25fb3b4a20
Manifest
.claude/skills/news-extractor/SKILL.md
Scanned
24 files, 3,661 lines
This is a static scan, not a review. It reads the skill's files; it does not run them, and it cannot tell you whether the skill is any good or whether the code does what its description says. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent.
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About this skill

What it does

The china-news-crawler skill retrieves news articles from Chinese sources. It can be used to stay informed about current events in China, conduct research on specific topics within Chinese media, or monitor sentiment around particular keywords. The crawler is designed specifically for news content and aims to provide relevant results.

When to use it

  • Market Research: Gather information about new products or trends emerging from the Chinese market.
  • Geopolitical Analysis: Track developments in China's foreign policy and international relations as reported by local media.
  • Brand Monitoring: Monitor mentions of your brand or competitors within Chinese news sources.
  • Academic Research: Collect data for research projects focusing on Chinese society, politics, or culture.

Key capabilities

  • Crawls Chinese news websites.
  • Retrieves news articles.
  • Focused on news content.

Example prompts

  • "Get me the latest news about electric vehicles in China."
  • "Find recent articles discussing US-China trade relations from Chinese sources."
  • "Summarize the top 5 news stories related to artificial intelligence in China today."

Tips & gotchas

The skill is specifically designed for Chinese news; results from other regions will be limited. Ensure your AI agent has appropriate language processing capabilities to handle Chinese text.