Building a News Monitoring Bot with OpenClaw

OpenClaw already runs as a persistent local agent connected to your messaging apps. With AgentPatch’s Google News tool connected, it can monitor topics and surface relevant articles on demand — or on a schedule if you configure one. No separate news aggregator required.

Why This Matters

Keeping up with fast-moving topics — a market you’re tracking, a competitor, a technology space — usually means checking multiple sources manually. An agent that can fetch and summarize news on command changes that workflow. You ask, it retrieves, you get a summary in your chat window.

OpenClaw’s always-on nature makes it a natural fit for this. It’s already running in the background connected to Telegram or Discord. Giving it Google News access through AgentPatch turns it into a lightweight monitoring bot.

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 tracking a few topics for a side project and you message your OpenClaw bot on Telegram:

“Monitor these topics for me and give me a morning briefing: ‘open source LLMs’, ‘AI coding tools’, ‘OpenAI news’. Start with today’s top stories on each.”

OpenClaw calls Google News for each topic, collects recent articles, and replies with a structured summary — top stories per topic, with source and date. In the same session you can follow up:

“Anything significant about Mistral specifically?”

OpenClaw runs a more targeted query and replies with the latest Mistral coverage. No configuration change, no new integration — it’s just using the same tool with a different search.

From there, you could ask OpenClaw to run this briefing every morning at 8am if your OpenClaw setup supports scheduled tasks — it’ll call Google News automatically and push results to your chat.

Wrapping Up

Connecting AgentPatch to OpenClaw gives you Google News access plus the full tool marketplace — web search, image generation, email, and more. Everything through the same connection. Get started at agentpatch.ai.

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