fetch-news-articles SKILL.md skillA
fetch-news-articles from atanasster/electionsbg is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- atanasster/electionsbg
- Path
.claude/skills/fetch-news-articles/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260826.9e5fb27, committed Aug 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 22, 2026
- Size
- 9,492 bytes
- Repository stars
- 15
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Fetch the latest N articles (default 5) from ONE named news website — title, URL, and publish date where available. Works for any of the 59 Bulgarian outlets in news/data/bg_news_sites.csv (uses its recorded feed method) and, via a lightweight inline probe, for other sites too. Use when the user names a specific outlet and asks for its latest / recent articles, headlines, or news — e.g. "get me the latest 5 from Дневник", "what's on mediapool.bg right now…
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What the file says
# fetch-news-articles
Fetches the latest N articles (title, URL, published date) from one news
site, using `news/scripts/fetch_latest_articles.py` — a tested Python
script that reads `news/data/bg_news_sites.csv`, dispatches by the site's
recorded `feed_method_*`, and returns clean JSON. Read that CSV's header
once to get the current `feed_method_*`/`feed_url_*` column names (they're
timestamped and renamed on refresh — see the update-news-sites skill). A
`quarantine_*` column carries a curated staleness verdict per outlet
(`stale_source` / `never` / empty); this skill does not act on it, but
save-news-articles routes a flagged source's articles to
`news/data/_quarantine/` rather than the corpus.
## Step 1 — resolve the domain
Strip `https://`, `www.`, and any trailing path/query the user gave you
down to a bare domain (`dnevnik.bg`, not `https://www.dnevnik.bg/`). If the
user named the outlet in Bulgarian or by brand ("Дневник", "Блиц"), match it
against the `outlet` column in the CSV, not just `domain`.
## Step 2 — run the script
```bash
python3 news/scripts/fetch_latest_articles.py <domain> <N>
```
⚠️ **Use a GENEROUS timeout — 60–90s, not the default 2 minutes' worth of
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How to install
mdr add atanasster/electionsbg/fetch-news-articles@sha256:df1b33bd7db5dd01The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260826.9e5fb27, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 22, 2026 and Aug 26, 2026, more than one a day.
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| git:20260826.9e5fb27 latest | 2026-08-26 | 9e5fb27 | 9,492 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260825.847c459 | 2026-08-25 | 847c459 | 9,492 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260825.037d9d5 | 2026-08-25 | 037d9d5 | 9,040 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260822.7f7ff5e | 2026-08-22 | 7f7ff5e | 8,792 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260822.40b51ef | 2026-08-22 | 40b51ef | 8,564 B | A | view |
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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Source
atanasster/electionsbg · 15 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3mliesj24ahd7ktd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=atanasster/electionsbg/fetch-news-articles GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/df1b33bd7db5dd01985a417288cfdc67fc7c0a852760c08b4692b10f760d6336
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