- name
- media-news-digest
- description
- Generate media & entertainment industry news digests. Covers Hollywood trades (THR, Deadline, Variety), box office, streaming, awards season, film festivals, and production news. Four-source data collection from RSS feeds, Twitter/X KOLs, Reddit, and web search. Pipeline-based scripts with retry mechanisms and deduplication. Supports Discord and email output with PDF attachments.
- version
- 2.1.1
- homepage
- https://github.com/draco-agent/media-news-digest
- source
- https://github.com/draco-agent/media-news-digest
- metadata
- openclaw
- requires
- bins
- ["python3"]
- optionalBins
- ["mail", "msmtp"]
- credentialAccess
- >
- env
- required
- false
- description
- Twitter/X API v2 bearer token for KOL monitoring (official backend)
- required
- false
- description
- twitterapi.io API key (alternative Twitter backend)
- required
- false
- description
- Twitter backend selection: official, twitterapiio, or auto (default: auto)
- required
- false
- description
- Brave Search API key for web search (single key)
- required
- false
- description
- Comma-separated Brave API keys for multi-key rotation (preferred over BRAVE_API_KEY)
- required
- false
- description
- Tavily Search API key (alternative web search backend)
Media News Digest
Automated media & entertainment industry news digest system. Covers Hollywood trades, box office, streaming platforms, awards season, film festivals, production news, and industry deals.
Quick Start
- Generate Digest (unified pipeline — runs all 4 sources in parallel):
python3 scripts/run-pipeline.py \
--defaults <SKILL_DIR>/config/defaults \
--config <WORKSPACE>/config \
--hours 48 --freshness pd \
--archive-dir <WORKSPACE>/archive/media-news-digest/ \
--output /tmp/md-merged.json --verbose --force- Use Templates: Apply Discord or email templates to merged output
Data Sources (65 total, 64 enabled)
- RSS Feeds (36, 35 enabled): THR, Deadline, Variety, IndieWire, The Wrap, Collider, Vulture, Awards Daily, Gold Derby, Screen Rant, Empire, The Playlist, /Film, Entertainment Weekly, Roger Ebert, CinemaBlend, Den of Geek, The Direct, MovieWeb, CBR, What's on Netflix, Decider, Anime News Network, and more
- Twitter/X KOLs (18): @THR, @DEADLINE, @Variety, @FilmUpdates, @DiscussingFilm, @BoxOfficeMojo, @MattBelloni, @Borys_Kit, @TheAcademy, @letterboxd, @A24, and more
- Reddit (11): r/movies, r/boxoffice, r/television, r/Oscars, r/TrueFilm, r/entertainment, r/netflix, r/marvelstudios, r/DC_Cinematic, r/anime, r/flicks
- Web Search (9 topics): Brave Search / Tavily with freshness filters
Topics (9 sections)
- 🇨🇳 China / 中国影视 — China mainland box office, Chinese films, Chinese streaming
- 🎬 Production / 制作动态 — New projects, casting, filming updates
- 💰 Deals & Business / 行业交易 — M&A, rights, talent deals
- 🎞️ Upcoming Releases / 北美近期上映 — Theater openings, release dates, trailers
- 🎟️ Box Office / 票房 — NA/global box office, opening weekends
- 📺 Streaming / 流媒体 — Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, HBO, viewership
- 🏆 Awards / 颁奖季 — Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys, BAFTAs
- 🎪 Film Festivals / 电影节 — Cannes, Venice, TIFF, Sundance, Berlin
- ⭐ Reviews & Buzz / 影评口碑 — Critical reception, RT/Metacritic scores
Scripts Pipeline
Unified Pipeline
python3 scripts/run-pipeline.py \
--defaults config/defaults --config workspace/config \
--hours 48 --freshness pd \
--archive-dir workspace/archive/media-news-digest/ \
--output /tmp/md-merged.json --verbose --force- Features: Runs all 4 fetch steps in parallel, then merges + deduplicates + scores
- Output: Final merged JSON ready for report generation (~30s total)
- Flags:
--skip rss,twitterto skip steps,--enrichfor full-text enrichment
Individual Scripts
fetch-rss.py— Parallel RSS fetcher (10 workers, 30s timeout, caching)fetch-twitter.py— Dual backend: official X API v2 + twitterapi.io (auto fallback, 3-worker concurrency)fetch-web.py— Web search via Brave (multi-key rotation) or Tavilyfetch-reddit.py— Reddit public JSON API (4 workers, no auth)merge-sources.py— Quality scoring, URL dedup, multi-source mergingsummarize-merged.py— Structured overview sorted by quality_scoreenrich-articles.py— Full-text enrichment for top articlesgenerate-pdf.py— PDF generation with Chinese typography + emojisend-email.py— MIME email with HTML body + PDF attachmentsanitize-html.py— XSS-safe markdown to HTML conversionvalidate-config.py— Configuration validatorsource-health.py— Source health trackingconfig_loader.py— Config overlay loader (defaults + user overrides)test-pipeline.sh— Pipeline testing with --only/--skip/--twitter-backend filters
Cron Integration
Reference references/digest-prompt.md in cron prompts.
Daily Digest
MODE = daily, FRESHNESS = pd, RSS_HOURS = 48Weekly Digest
MODE = weekly, FRESHNESS = pw, RSS_HOURS = 168Dependencies
All scripts work with Python 3.8+ standard library only. feedparser optional but recommended.