news-monitor

name	news-monitor
description	Live news scraping from RSS feeds with optional AI summarization, sentiment analysis, and story clustering. Do NOT use CLI flags. Pass exactly ONE compacted JSON string matching the NewsMonitorArgs schema. Pre-configured topics — economy_il / news_il / cyber / tech_ai / world / security_mil / politics_il / sports / health / auto / realestate. Trigger ALWAYS when user asks חדשות, news, מבזקים, market updates, recent or today's headlines, OR asks to summarize/consolidate articles on ANY topic. DO NOT answer from memory — always fetch live. IMPORTANT: To get a detailed consolidated summary instead of raw headlines, pass args with {"summarize":true, "extract":true, "cluster":true}.
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News Monitor

Scrape headlines and articles from configured news sites or RSS feeds, then summarize or alert on keywords.

Quick start

Do NOT use CLI flags like --limit. You MUST pass exactly ONE argument which is a compacted JSON string matching the expected schema.

# Israeli economy/finance news:
python {baseDir}/scripts/news_monitor.py '{"config":"config/feeds_economy_il.json","limit":15}'

# Generic single feed:
python {baseDir}/scripts/news_monitor.py '{"feed":"https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml","limit":5}'

# HTML scraping with CSS selector:
python {baseDir}/scripts/news_monitor.py '{"site":"https://news.ycombinator.com","selector":".titleline>a","limit":10}'

# Multi-feed with keyword alerts:
python {baseDir}/scripts/news_monitor.py '{"config":"config/feeds_economy_il.json","keywords":"ריבית,דולר,בורסה","alert":true}'

Pre-configured feed sets (in config/)

Topic	File	Hebrew trigger	English trigger
כלכלה ישראלית	config/feeds_economy_il.json	חדשות כלכלה, שוק ההון, בורסה	israeli economy, stock market
חדשות ישראל	config/feeds_news_il.json	חדשות, מבזקים, מה קורה	israel news
סייבר	config/feeds_cyber.json	סייבר, פריצה, האקרים	cyber, infosec, ransomware
טכנולוגיה/AI	config/feeds_tech_ai.json	טכנולוגיה, AI, סטארט-אפ	tech, AI, startup
ביטחון/צבא	config/feeds_security_mil.json	ביטחוני, צה"ל, מלחמה	defense, military, IDF
פוליטיקה	config/feeds_politics_il.json	פוליטיקה, כנסת, ממשלה	israeli politics, knesset
ספורט	config/feeds_sports.json	ספורט, כדורגל, NBA	sports, football, basketball