Tencent News Content Subscription

The Problem It Solves

Developers and data enthusiasts need to programmatically fetch structured content from Tencent News for analysis, archiving, or integration into other applications. Manually scraping web pages is costly to maintain, prone to breakage, and requires dealing with anti-scraping mechanisms. This skill provides a standardized solution via a Command-Line Interface (CLI), enabling users to obtain data through simple commands instead of complex code.

How It Works

The core of this skill is tencent-news-cli, a command-line tool that encapsulates the data-fetching logic. The skill itself defines a standardized interaction protocol with the CLI, primarily in two phases:

1. Environment Readiness Check & Configuration

   • By executing the cli-state script, it retrieves the current environment status: whether the CLI exists, if an update is needed, and if the API Key is configured.
   • Based on this status, the intelligent agent guides the user through necessary steps sequentially: installing or updating the CLI, and configuring the API Key. All configuration actions are executed via the run-cli script, ensuring operational consistency and traceability.
   • Core Constraint: Obtaining the API Key is a manual user action; the agent never automatically opens browsers, clarifying the human-machine responsibility boundary.

2. Fetching & Presenting News Content

   • The help command must be executed first to get the current list of all supported subcommands and parameters. This is crucial for avoiding outdated command errors.
   • User intent (e.g., "get trending", "fetch finance news") is mapped to one or more CLI subcommands.
   • All actual business commands (e.g., querying news) are executed strictly through the run-cli script, with parameters constructed entirely based on the help output. Hardcoding is prohibited.
   • The JSON results returned by the CLI are rendered into a readable list format, including structured fields like title, source, time, summary, and original article link.

Scope and Important Notes

• Hard Dependency on CLI & API Key: This skill cannot bypass the CLI to fetch news and requires a valid API Key. The availability of the CLI is a prerequisite for all functions.
• Version Coupling & Strict Compliance: CLI updates may change subcommands at any time. You must execute help at each interaction to get the latest command list. Any assumption based on memory will likely lead to failure.
• Strict Error Handling Philosophy: When a CLI command fails (e.g., permission errors, network issues), the skill guides the user to handle specific errors but never degrades to alternative sources like web search. This ensures the purity and auditability of the data source.
• Platform Differences: The skill uses adapted scripts (.sh / .ps1) to handle differences between macOS/Linux and Windows, but the underlying logic is consistent. Users must ensure they are running the script for the correct platform.