How to Build a Daily News Digest with OpenClaw

OpenClaw runs locally and stays connected to your messaging apps. With AgentPatch’s Google News tool connected, you can ask it for a curated news digest on any set of topics — and if your OpenClaw setup supports scheduling, it can push one to you every morning automatically.

Why This Matters

Most people have a set of topics they want to stay on top of — their industry, key companies, relevant technology areas. Checking each one manually every morning is tedious. RSS feeds help but require setup and curation. An agent that knows your topics and fetches a digest on demand is a simpler solution.

OpenClaw is already sitting in your chat apps. With Google News access through AgentPatch, it becomes a lightweight personal news briefing service with no additional infrastructure.

Setup

Add AgentPatch to ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json:

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "agentpatch": {
        "transport": "streamable-http",
        "url": "https://agentpatch.ai/mcp",
        "headers": {
          "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual key from the AgentPatch dashboard. Restart OpenClaw and it discovers all AgentPatch tools automatically.

Example

You’re using OpenClaw on Telegram. You message your bot:

“Every morning, give me a daily digest covering these topics: ‘AI developer tools’, ‘open source LLMs’, ‘Anthropic’, ‘OpenAI’. Fetch the top 3 stories per topic and summarize each in 1-2 sentences.”

OpenClaw calls Google News for each topic, collects the most recent articles, and sends back a formatted digest to your Telegram chat — four sections, three stories each, brief summaries. You read it over coffee.

If you’ve set up scheduled tasks in OpenClaw, this happens automatically at whatever time you specify. If not, you can trigger it on demand:

“Morning digest please.”

OpenClaw runs the same set of queries and delivers the briefing. The format is consistent because you specified it once, and the content is current because it’s fetching live results each time.

You can refine it over time — add a topic, remove one, ask for more or fewer stories per section. It’s just a conversation.

Wrapping Up

AgentPatch gives OpenClaw access to Google News and the full tool marketplace through one connection. News digests are just the start — web search, image generation, email, and more are all available through the same setup. Get started at agentpatch.ai.

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