CNBC Geopolitics Fetcher Skill

Purpose

Fetches latest CNBC geopolitical news articles, extracts complete factual data (NO truncation), and posts each article individually to Discord with enhanced analyst/Polymarket-relevant context.

What This Skill Does

1. Scrapes 5 latest CNBC articles on geopolitics (Iran, Middle East, oil markets, energy policy)
2. Extracts complete sentences - NO truncation or summarization
3. Identifies analyst forecasts and Polymarket-relevant data (odds, probabilities, market pricing)
4. Posts each article as a separate Discord message (1-by-1, not batched)
5. Auto-splits long messages to fit Discord's 2000-character limit

Quick Start (One Command)

Run this from workspace root:

python "C:\Users\Legion 5i Pro\.openclaw\workspace\skills\cnbc-geopolitics-fetcher\scripts\fetch_cnbc_geopolitics.py" --webhook "YOUR_DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL" --verbose

Required Arguments

• --webhook: Discord webhook URL (required)
• --config: Path to config file containing webhook (alternative to --webhook)
• --count: Number of articles to fetch (default: 5)
• --verbose: Show detailed extraction output

Example (Full Command)

python "C:\Users\Legion 5i Pro\.openclaw\workspace\skills\cnbc-geopolitics-fetcher\scripts\fetch_cnbc_geopolitics.py" --webhook "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/1482043765471445333/-cHOLCqBtvU_Wua8STfoINes7J0pFNFsXB27EJ3f8F7BklC5P_OkIGAx2HQLDPZe1bNJ" --count 5 --verbose

Configuration

Option 1: Command-Line Webhook

Pass webhook URL directly:

python fetch_cnbc_geopolitics.py --webhook "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/..."

Option 2: Config File

Create references/config.md with:

## Discord Webhook
https://discord.com/api/webhooks/1482043765471445333/-cHOLCqBtvU_Wua8STfoINes7J0pFNFsXB27EJ3f8F7BklC5P_OkIGAx2HQLDPZe1bNJ

Then run:

python fetch_cnbc_geopolitics.py --config "C:\Users\Legion 5i Pro\.openclaw\workspace\skills\cnbc-geopolitics-fetcher\references\config.md"

Output Format (Discord Message)

Each article posts as:

### Article

**[Full Article Title]**

**URL:** https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/...

**Market Impact:** Energy: [complete sentence about oil/energy]; Stocks: [complete sentence about markets]; Analyst: [forecast/prediction]

**Hard Facts:**
  - Official: [complete quoted statement from official]
  - Action: [complete sentence describing military/diplomatic action]
  - Data: [complete sentence with numbers/statistics]
  - Timeline: [complete sentence with dates/deadlines]
  - Analyst: [complete sentence with forecast/market prediction]

*(Raw data - no editorial analysis)*

Key Features

• Complete sentences - NO truncation (removed all length limits)
• Analyst/Polymarket data - extracts forecasts, odds, probabilities, market pricing
• One-by-one posting - each article is a separate Discord message
• Auto-split - messages >2000 chars split into parts automatically

How It Works (Architecture)

1. Article Discovery

• Searches CNBC HTML for article links matching pattern: https://www.cnbc.com/YYYY/MM/...
• Filters out video, premium, pro, tag, section, live URLs
• Returns up to 25 unique geopolitical article URLs

2. Article Scraping

• Uses Scrapling (stealth headless browser) to bypass anti-bot protections
• Extracts: title, full article text, description metadata
• Falls back to regex extraction if Scrapling fails

3. Fact Extraction (NO Truncation)

• Splits article text into complete sentences
• Scans for 6 fact categories:
  1. Official: Quoted statements with attribution (said/stated/announced)
  2. Action: Military/diplomatic/economic actions (strike/launch/sanctions)
  3. Data: Numbers with units (million/billion/percent/barrel/$)
  4. Timeline: Dates/deadlines (by/before/after/until/expected)
  5. Analyst: Forecasts/predictions (forecast/expect/project/likely/recession)
  6. Market: Polymarket/prediction market language (odds/probability/betting)
• Returns up to 5 complete facts per article

4. Market Impact Extraction

• Scans for energy, stocks, currency, analyst, Polymarket sentences
• Returns complete sentences (NO length limits)
• Categories: Energy, Stocks, Currency, Analyst, Polymarket

5. Discord Posting

• Formats each article as markdown
• Checks message length against 2000-char Discord limit
• If too long: splits into Title+URL+Market, Facts, Disclaimer parts
• Posts each article individually (not batched)
• Small delay (0.3s) between split parts

File Structure

skills/cnbc-geopolitics-fetcher/
├── SKILL.md                 # This documentation
├── scripts/
│   └── fetch_cnbc_geopolitics.py   # Main scraper script
└── references/
    └── config.md            # Discord webhook configuration

Dependencies

• Python 3.x
• scrapling (stealth web scraping)
• beautifulsoup4 (HTML parsing)
• requests (HTTP client)

Install dependencies:

pip install scrapling beautifulsoup4 requests

Customization Tips

Change Article Count

python fetch_cnbc_geopolitics.py --webhook "..." --count 10

Output to File Instead of Discord

python fetch_cnbc_geopolitics.py --output "output.md" --count 5

Disable Verbose Output

Remove --verbose flag for cleaner console output.

Troubleshooting

Error: "can't open file"

• Quote the full path: python "C:\path\with\spaces\script.py"
• Use forward slashes or escape backslashes

Error: "Discord error 400"

• Message exceeds 2000 characters
• Script should auto-split, but check format_single_article() function

Error: "No facts extracted"

• Article may have anti-bot protection
• Check Scrapling installation: pip install scrapling
• Try with --verbose to see extraction details

Error: "ModuleNotFoundError"

• Install dependencies: pip install scrapling beautifulsoup4 requests

LLM Integration Notes

For Any LLM to Use This Skill

1. Read this SKILL.md - understand purpose and usage
2. Check config.md - get webhook URL from references/config.md
3. Run the command - execute the Python script with proper path quoting
4. Verify output - check Discord for posted articles

Key Constraints to Remember

• NO truncation - script extracts complete sentences only
• One-by-one posting - each article = separate Discord message
• Raw facts only - no editorial analysis or opinions
• Polymarket-ready - extracts analyst forecasts and prediction market data

Example LLM Prompt

"Fetch latest CNBC geopolitical news and post to Discord using the cnbc-geopolitics-fetcher skill."

Expected LLM Action

1. Locate skill at: skills/cnbc-geopolitics-fetcher/
2. Read config: references/config.md for webhook URL
3. Execute:

   python "skills/cnbc-geopolitics-fetcher/scripts/fetch_cnbc_geopolitics.py" --config "skills/cnbc-geopolitics-fetcher/references/config.md" --verbose
   

4. Confirm: "5 articles posted individually to Discord"

Version History

• v2.0 (2026-03-15): One-by-one posting, NO truncation, analyst/Polymarket extraction, auto-split long messages
• v1.0: Initial batched posting with truncation limits

Support

• Skill location: C:\Users\Legion 5i Pro\.openclaw\workspace\skills\cnbc-geopolitics-fetcher\
• Script: scripts/fetch_cnbc_geopolitics.py
• Config: references/config.md