panews-web-viewer

name: panews-web-viewer
description: Read public PANews website pages as Markdown. Use for homepage, article-page, and column-page reads.
metadata:
author: Seven Du
version: "2026.03.16"

Fetches www.panewslab.com pages as Markdown via Accept: text/markdown. Responses include a YAML frontmatter block with page metadata (title, description, image).

Current first-class support in this skill is single-page fetching through the bundled script below. It is intended for homepage, article-page, and column-page reads, not broad site crawling.

When to Use

• The user provides or implies a PANews web URL
• The task is to read the rendered article page, homepage, or column page as Markdown
• The caller wants the page content, not the underlying JSON API shape

Do Not Use When

• The task is structured search, rankings, or filtered API retrieval
• The task requires creator authentication or write access
• The user asks for JSON fields rather than page Markdown

Supported Languages

Standard Workflow

PANews Web Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Confirm this is a website-page task, not an API task
- [ ] Step 2: Choose the locale prefix
- [ ] Step 3: Fetch with Accept: text/markdown
- [ ] Step 4: Preserve frontmatter metadata in the response

Scripts

node {Skills Directory}/panews-web-viewer/scripts/fetch-page.mjs <path-or-url> [--lang zh]

Usage

node {Skills Directory}/panews-web-viewer/scripts/fetch-page.mjs /articles/ARTICLE_ID --lang en
node {Skills Directory}/panews-web-viewer/scripts/fetch-page.mjs https://www.panewslab.com/zh-hant/columns/COLUMN_ID

Rules

• Prefer the bundled fetch-page.mjs script; if you fall back to curl, use -sSL
• Always include the locale prefix in the URL
• Route to panews if the user asks for structured search or filterable API data

Failure Handling

• If the page returns 404, report it as unavailable rather than trying to synthesize content from API endpoints
• If the caller gives a path without a locale prefix, add the prefix from --lang or default to zh