the-news
The Hear provides agents with real-time and archival access to front-page headlines from 20 countries. It returns JSON data containing main headlines, subtitles, and AI-generated contextual overviews for comparative media analysis.
Is the-news safe to install?
Review the source first: our audit of the-news's source files found 0 shell commands, 7 external URLs, no file writes (high risk). Every command and URL listed appears verbatim in the skill's source. The skill performs network requests to an external API to retrieve news data.
How we audit skills: our security review methodology.
Who is this skill for?
Agents requiring breaking news, historical headline data, or multi-perspective global media analysis.
What can you do with it?
- Retrieving current front-page headlines for a specific country
- Fetching historical headline snapshots for a specific date and time
- Generating comparative summaries of news narratives over a date range
- Providing users with links to visual headline dashboards
How good is this skill?
Quality score: 5/10. The documentation is clear, provides specific examples, and defines the API structure and limitations well.
What does the skill file contain?
This skill gives agents access to the main headlines of many newspapers and news sites, across 20 countries, via a public API. The API has two modes: a live mode, updated in near real-time, and an archive mode that lets you fetch the headlines from a given moment in time. In both modes, the endpoint returns a JSON response with the main headline for each source, accompanied by AI-generated overviews to help you contextualize the raw output. The API is organized by country. A call for US headlines, for instance, returns headlines from about 40 sources across the ideological spectrum - from N...
Frequently asked questions
Does this skill require an API key?
No, the API is public and does not require authentication.
How far back does the archive go?
The earliest archive date varies by country, starting as early as July 2024.
Can I use this to fetch full articles?
No, the API provides headlines, subtitles, and links to full articles, but it does not return the full text of the articles themselves.
Are the AI overviews reliable?
The overviews are interpretive layers generated by an AI model. The raw headlines are the source of truth.
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