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name: newsnow description: | CLI tool to fetch trending news and hot topics from 66 sources across 44 platforms. Returns structured news items with titles, URLs, and metadata.

USE FOR:

• Fetching trending/hot news from Chinese and international platforms
• Monitoring hot topics across social media, tech, finance, and news sites
• Getting structured news data as JSON for further processing
• Listing available news sources

Requires npm install. Some sources need env vars (PRODUCTHUNT_API_TOKEN). Some sources may be blocked by Cloudflare (linuxdo). allowed-tools:

• Bash(newsnow *)
• Bash(npx newsnow *)

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newsnow CLI

Fetch trending news and hot topics from 66 sources across 44 platforms. Returns news items with title, URL, and optional metadata.

Run newsnow --help for usage details.

Workflow

Follow this pattern:

1. List - Don't know what sources are available? List them first.
2. Fetch - Know the source? Fetch news directly.
3. JSON - Need structured data? Add --json for machine-readable output.

Commands

list

List all available sources.

newsnow list
newsnow list --json

Fetch a source

newsnow hackernews
newsnow hackernews --json

Output fields (JSON mode):

• id - Unique item identifier
• title - News headline
• url - Link to the article (optional)
• pubDate - Publication date (optional)
• extra - Additional metadata like view counts, comments (optional)

Sources

66 source endpoints across 44 platforms:

Source Selection Guide

Environment Variables

• PRODUCTHUNT_API_TOKEN - Required for producthunt source

Known Limitations

• linuxdo, linuxdo-latest, linuxdo-hot may return 403 Forbidden (Cloudflare)
• Some Chinese sources may be inaccessible from outside mainland China

Working with Results

newsnow hackernews --json | jq '.[].title'
newsnow hackernews --json | jq '.[:5]'
newsnow weibo --json | jq '.[] | "\(.title) \(.url)"'