Blog Watcher

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Track blogs and RSS or Atom feeds, discover new articles and manage a reading queue.

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Illustrative Blog Watcher workflow: Blogs + RSS / Atom feeds; example output includes Product release notes, Research articles, Reading queue.

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What this skill helps with

OpenClaw’s Blog Watcher skill describes the blogwatcher CLI for maintaining a list of blogs and checking their RSS or Atom feeds. It includes commands to scan for updates, list articles and mark reading progress.

When to use it

Use it to follow a set of product blogs, publications or research feeds. It is useful for a recurring research workflow when the surrounding runtime actually schedules the scans.

What to bring

Provide the blog or feed URLs and the sources you want to track. The skill requires the blogwatcher binary; a scan checks the sources already added to its local collection.

What to expect

Expect a list of tracked blogs, articles discovered by a scan and a manageable reading queue. Opening this catalogue does not start monitoring; the feed preview is a fictional example.

How the skill works

Build the source list

Add the blogs to track and inspect the configured list. Use meaningful labels so the origin of each article is clear.

Scan and inspect new articles

Run a feed scan and examine the article list. Distinguish newly discovered posts from articles that were already known.

Maintain the reading queue

Mark articles as read after reviewing them. Keep feed removal and bulk read-status changes within the requested scope.

Related skills and guides

Blog Watcher skill questions

Does the skill include a scheduler?

The published file documents the CLI’s feed operations. Automated scheduling belongs to the surrounding runtime and is not activated by this page.

Which feed formats are covered?

The source explicitly describes RSS and Atom feed updates, together with blog tracking and article read-status commands.

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