This skill helps users automatically extract structured news data from Google News via BrowserAct API. Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like searching for news about a specific topic,…
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name: google-news-api-skill
description: "This skill helps users automatically extract structured news data from Google News via BrowserAct API. Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like searching for news about a specific topic, tracking industry trends, monitoring public relations or sentiment, collecting competitor updates, getting latest reports on specific keywords, monitoring brand exposure in media, researching market hot topics, summarizing daily industry news, tracking media activities of specific individuals, retrieving hot events from the past 24 hours, extracting structured data for market research, monitoring global breaking news."
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# Google News Automation Skill
## 📖 Introduction
This skill provides a one-stop news collection service using BrowserAct's Google News API template. It directly extracts structured news results from Google News, including headlines, sources, publication times, and article links. Simply input search keywords and time filters to get clean, usable news data.
## ✨ Features
1. **No Hallucinations**: Pre-set workflows avoid AI generative hallucinations, ensuring stable and precise data extraction.
2. **No Captcha Issues**: No need to handle reCAPTCHA or other verification challenges.
3. **No IP Restrictions**: No need to handle regional IP restrictions or geofencing.
4. **Faster Execution**: Tasks execute faster compared to pure AI-driven browser automation solutions.
5. **Cost-Effective**: Significantly lowers data acquisition costs compared to high-token-consuming AI solutions.
## 🔑 API Key Setup
Before running, check the `BROWSERACT_API_KEY` environment variable. If not set, do not take other measures; ask and wait for the user to provide it.
**Agent must inform the user**:
> "Since you haven't configured the BrowserAct API Key, please visit the [BrowserAct Console](https://www.browseract.com/reception/integrations) to get your Key."
## 🛠️ Input Parameters
Agent should flexibly configure the following parameters based on user needs:… install to load the full skill