minerals-news-monitor

name	minerals-news-monitor
description	Discover critical-minerals and materials signals from newspapers, blogs, and industry media using web search, with normalized policy/commodity tagging
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Minerals News Monitor

Discover relevant links from newspapers, blogs, and industry outlets for critical minerals and materials topics.

Usage

# Broad monitoring
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/news_monitor.py --query "critical minerals" --max-results 20

# Commodity/country targeted monitoring
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/news_monitor.py \
  --commodity lithium --commodity cobalt \
  --country china --country canada \
  --format json

# Blogs only
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/news_monitor.py --query "battery materials" --source-type blogs

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default
--query	Base search query	critical minerals
--commodity	Commodity term (repeatable)	-
--country	Country term (repeatable)	-
--max-results	Max records returned	20
--source-type	all, news, blogs	all
--format	summary, detailed, json	summary

Output Schema

Each record includes: url, source, published_at, title, summary, commodity_tags, country_tags, policy_signal, confidence, retrieved_at, source_type.

Notes

• Uses DuckDuckGo HTML results (no API key required).
• Designed for discovery; use minerals-web-ingest to fetch full content and persist hashes.