sylo-news

News headlines for Pi coding agent — Google News RSS topics + FinancialJuice finance wire (no API keys). Ships a Sylo-only host plugin (pi.sylo) that is inert on vanilla Pi.

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Package details

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Install sylo-news from npm and Pi will load the resources declared by the package manifest.

npm repo home report

$ pi install npm:sylo-news

Package: sylo-news
Version: 0.1.1
Published: Sep 12, 2026
Downloads: 315/mo · 315/wk
Author: yeti-trix
License: MIT
Types: extension, skill
Size: 48 KB
Dependencies: 1 dependency · 0 peers

Pi manifest JSON

{
  "extensions": [
    "./extensions/news/index.ts"
  ],
  "skills": [
    "./skills/news"
  ]
}

Security note

Pi packages can execute code and influence agent behavior. Review the source before installing third-party packages.

README

sylo-news

General and financial news headlines for Sylo/Pi — as an individual, self-contained pi package (one repo = one npm package).

Google News RSS topics (tech, sports, local, search, …) + FinancialJuice finance wire
No API keys, no credentials, browser User-Agent, ~2 min cache
Works on vanilla Pi and inside Sylo (where it adds a small Sylo-only host plugin)

Install

pi install npm:sylo-news

In Sylo: Capability manager → Pi.dev package catalog (or Install by exact spec → npm:sylo-news), then Restart broker.

No Python deps for the extension. (The finance-wire fallback script skills/news/scripts/fetch_financialjuice_rss.py is stdlib-only.)

Tool

sylo_news — RSS headlines with a browser User-Agent, cached ~2 minutes.

Param	Default	Notes
`topic`	`general`	See skill for full list
`hours`	24 (max 168)	Time window by pubDate
`location`	—	Required for `topic=local`
`query`	—	Required for `topic=search`; optional for `travel`
`force_refresh`	false	Bypass cache

Sources (no API key today):

finance — FinancialJuice wire (~100 item cap, rate-limits rapid refetch)
Other topics — Google News RSS sections + local/search queries

See references/NEWS_SOURCES.md for paid API options (Ground News, GNews, NewsData.io, etc.).

Legacy: sylo_financial_news still registers as an alias for topic=finance.

Sylo-only extras (inert on vanilla Pi)

This package carries a pi.sylo manifest block. Vanilla Pi ignores it completely. Inside Sylo, the host-plugin loader loads host/index.js, which provides:

news.ping RPC op — reports { ok, plugin: 'sylo-news', version } (used to verify npm-installed host plugins load through Sylo's generic loader).

No personal data, no secrets, and nothing here publishes any operator data.

Why not sylo_web_fetch?

sylo_web_fetch rejects RSS (text/xml). Google News item links are redirects — use sylo_web_search on the headline for detail.

Local news + profile

The news skill instructs the agent to read profile/user_profile.md for location before local news. Ask once if missing, then save to the profile.

Fallback script

skills/news/scripts/fetch_financialjuice_rss.py (stdlib) if the extension is disabled and operator wants finance wire only.

Development

npm install
npm test        # RSS parsing tests (esbuild-bundled, node --test)

Layout: extensions/news/ (pi extension: the sylo_news tool), skills/news/ (skill + fallback script), host/ (Sylo-only host plugin), references/ (source research).