News Summary

Overview

Fetch and summarize news from trusted international sources via RSS feeds.

RSS Feeds

BBC (Primary)

# World news
curl -s ""

# Top stories
curl -s ""

# Business
curl -s ""

# Technology
curl -s ""

Reuters

# World news
curl -s ""

NPR (US perspective)

curl -s ""

Al Jazeera (Global South perspective)

curl -s ""

Parse RSS

Extract titles and descriptions:

curl -s "" | \
  grep -E "<title>|<description>" | \
  sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | \
  sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | \
  head -30

Workflow

Text summary

Fetch BBC world headlines

Optionally supplement with Reuters/NPR

Summarize key stories

Group by region or topic

Voice summary

Create text summary

Generate voice with OpenAI TTS

Send as audio message

curl -s  \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "tts-1-hd",
    "input": "<news summary text>",
    "voice": "onyx",
    "speed": 0.95
  }' \
  --output /tmp/news.mp3

Example Output Format

📰 News Summary [date]

🌍 WORLD
- [headline 1]
- [headline 2]

💼 BUSINESS
- [headline 1]

💻 TECH
- [headline 1]

Best Practices

• Keep summaries concise (5-8 top stories)
• Prioritize breaking news and major events
• For voice: ~2 minutes max
• Balance perspectives (Western + Global South)
• Cite source if asked