RSS
Read and parse RSS and Atom feeds. Follow blogs and news from your agent.
Details
RSS skill gives your agent the ability to fetch and parse RSS/Atom feeds. For news digests, blog monitoring, and content aggregation.
When to use
Use when the agent should summarize or monitor feeds. Pairs with Summarize for daily or weekly digests.
How RSS fits into your OpenClaw setup
Web skills let OpenClaw reach out to the live internet — fetching pages, monitoring changes, and pulling current information into the conversation. RSS is one of these, and it closes the gap between what the model knows and what is true right now.
What working with it looks like
Ask the assistant about something current, and RSS does the legwork: fetching, reading, and distilling before the reply comes back. For ongoing needs, set up a watch — the assistant checks on a schedule and messages you only when something actually changed.
Installing RSS
Getting it running is straightforward: run the command below from the OpenClaw directory and restart your assistant. The one step people skip — and regret — is reading the README first. If the skill needs an API key, a token, or account permissions, sorting that before the first request saves a confusing debugging session.
Then test it. Ask the assistant for something small that exercises the new skill end to end. Skills fail in two ways — not registered, or registered but misconfigured — and a quick first request tells you immediately which situation you are in, if either.
clawhub install rssGetting the most out of it
Think of RSS as one instrument in an ensemble. OpenClaw's real strength is composition — the assistant combining several skills in a single task because the request demanded it. When you browse the catalogue, look for the skills that complete your workflows, not just the ones that sound impressive in isolation.
And if you would rather not assemble this yourself, we do it for a living: OpenClaw installation, a skill set chosen and configured around how you work — including RSS where it fits — and custom skills built where the catalogue stops short.