Generate daily news English learning cards with comic illustrations.
Search the latest 24-hour news across 5 categories (Politics, Finance, Sports, Entertainment, Technology), create vocabulary-rich learning cards with AI-generated comic art and bilingual summaries.
Use when the user asks to "generate English learning cards", "create news cards", "daily English cards", "新闻英语卡片", "每日英语学习", "生成学习卡片", or similar requests related to news-based English learning content.
Prerequisites
Three API keys are required. Set them as environment variables before running:
| Variable | Service | Get Key |
|---|---|---|
TAVILY_API_KEY | Tavily Search (news) | https://tavily.com |
DEEPSEEK_API_KEY | DeepSeek (text gen) | https://platform.deepseek.com |
OPENROUTER_API_KEY | OpenRouter (image gen) | https://openrouter.ai |
Optional:
| Variable | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
IMAGE_MODEL | google/gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview | OpenRouter image model (Nano Banana 2) |
Steps
- Verify environment variables are set
Check that TAVILY_API_KEY, DEEPSEEK_API_KEY, and OPENROUTER_API_KEY are configured. If any are missing, prompt the user to set them.
- Install dependencies
pip install -q tavily-python openai Pillow requests- Run the generator script
python daily-news-english-cards/scripts/generate_cards.pyThe script will: - Search 5 categories of news via Tavily - Generate vocabulary & summaries via DeepSeek - Create comic illustrations via OpenRouter (Nano Banana 2) - Composite final learning cards via Pillow
- Present results
Show the user the generated card images from output/daily-news-cards/{date}/.
Customization
# Custom categories
python daily-news-english-cards/scripts/generate_cards.py --categories politics sports technology
# Custom output directory
python daily-news-english-cards/scripts/generate_cards.py --output-dir ./my-cardsOutput
Each run produces in output/daily-news-cards/{date}/:
card_{category}_{date}.png— Final learning cards (1080×1440px)comic_{category}_{date}.png— Raw comic illustrationscontent_{date}.json— Structured learning content data
Architecture
daily-news-english-cards/
├── SKILL.md # This file
├── requirements.txt # Python dependencies
└── scripts/
└── generate_cards.py # Self-contained generator (all logic in one file)The script is fully portable — works with Cursor, OpenClaw, or standalone CLI. No IDE-specific tools are used; all external calls go through standard APIs.