Awesome-openclaw-skills freshrss

Query headlines and articles from a self-hosted FreshRSS instance. Use when the user asks for RSS news, latest headlines, feed updates, or wants to browse articles from their FreshRSS reader. Supports filtering by category, time range, and count.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/freshrss" ~/.claude/skills/sundial-org-awesome-openclaw-skills-freshrss && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/freshrss" ~/.openclaw/skills/sundial-org-awesome-openclaw-skills-freshrss && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/freshrss/SKILL.md

source content

FreshRSS

Query headlines from a self-hosted FreshRSS instance via the Google Reader compatible API.

Setup

Set these environment variables:

export FRESHRSS_URL="https://your-freshrss-instance.com"
export FRESHRSS_USER="your-username"
export FRESHRSS_API_PASSWORD="your-api-password"

API password is set in FreshRSS → Settings → Profile → API Management.

Commands

Get latest headlines

{baseDir}/scripts/freshrss.sh headlines --count 10

Get headlines from the last N hours

{baseDir}/scripts/freshrss.sh headlines --hours 2

Get headlines from a specific category

{baseDir}/scripts/freshrss.sh headlines --category "Technology" --count 15

Get only unread headlines

{baseDir}/scripts/freshrss.sh headlines --unread --count 20

Combine filters

{baseDir}/scripts/freshrss.sh headlines --category "News" --hours 4 --count 10 --unread

List categories

{baseDir}/scripts/freshrss.sh categories

List feeds

{baseDir}/scripts/freshrss.sh feeds

Output

Headlines are formatted as:

[date] [source] Title
  URL
  Categories: cat1, cat2

Notes

Default count is 20 headlines if not specified
Time filtering uses
```
--hours
```
for relative time (e.g., last 2 hours)
Category names are case-sensitive and must match your FreshRSS categories
Use
```
categories
```
command first to see available category names