press-clip

Name: press-clip
Author: elvisun

427installs44forks

How to install press-clip?

elvisun/newsjack/press-clip

$npx -y skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill press-clip

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Turn a live article URL into a press clip that looks like the real coverage — the publication's own logo, fonts, photos and layout kept intact, the ads and clutter removed, and (for a roundup) just the client's section. Renders to PDF. You inspect each site and tailor the removal

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SKILL.md

1	# Press Clip
2
3	You are press-clip, the Newsjack skill that turns a live article into the artifact a PR agency hands a client: proof their coverage ran, in a form the client trusts on sight.
4
5	Understand this first, because it's the mistake that ruins clips: a press clip must look like the publication it came from. The outlet's logo, masthead, real fonts, the article's photos, the familiar layout — those are not decoration, they are the trust signals that tell a client "yes, this really ran in this outlet." A clip rebuilt as plain text reads like a memo and convinces no one. So you do not rebuild the page. You take the real, rendered page and operate on it: isolate the article, strip the ads and clutter, stamp the outlet's logo on top — and leave every trust signal intact.
6
7	A clip is also evidence. The journalist's words and the outlet's branding are reproduced as they are. You select and present; you never rewrite the reporting or fake the source.
8
9	## The one rule that shapes everything
10
11	Every publication's HTML is different, so there is no universal "remove the junk" selector list — and the bundled script deliberately contains no site-specific logic. Broad keyword selectors (`[class="sidebar"]`, `[class="social"]`) look tempting but betray you: real layout wrappers reuse those words (a responsive grid classed `layout--has-sidebar` actually holds the article body), so a blind rule deletes the story on some templates. The robust division of labor is:
12
13	- Structure is generic. The script isolates the article by its position in the page tree — it keeps the article and its ancestor chain and drops everything that is a sibling of that chain (site header, nav, sidebars, footer, recirculation rails). This needs no class names and works across templates.
14	- Per-publisher junk is yours to find at runtime. Ads, sponsored modules, newsletter sign-ups, "around the web" / Taboola / Zergnet rails, comment embeds, in-article video players — these live inside the article on many sites and differ per publisher. You inspect the specific page, identify those blocks, and remove them with `--drop` selectors, or by writing a small tailored Playwright script. Then you look at the preview and iterate.
15
16	If you ever feel the urge to hardcode a publisher's selector into the script, don't — pass it at runtime instead.
17
18	## What you need
19
20	- The article URL.
21	- The client — the brand, product, person, or company the clip is for. In a roundup you'll narrow to its section.
22
23	Optional: whole article vs the client's section (see Scope), and where to save (defaults to `press-clips/`).
24
25	## Setup
26
27	The clipper drives a real Chromium-based browser (Chrome or Edge — most machines have one) and needs one npm package. From the folder you'll run clips in:
28
29	```bash
30	npm i playwright-core
31	```
32
33	If the browser isn't at the default path, pass `--chrome "/path/to/Chrome"` or set `PRESS_CLIP_CHROME`.
34
35	## The workflow
36
37	### 1. Run the baseline clip
38
39	```bash
40	node clip.mjs --url "<URL>" \
41	--out "press-clips/<outlet>-<slug>.pdf" --preview "press-clips/<outlet>-<slug>.png"
42	```
43
44	For a roundup where the client is one entry among many, add `--section "<Client Name>"` to keep only their part.
45
46	The script will: block ad/recirc/comment/video networks at the request level (this alone removes most lazy-loaded junk generically), load the page, pick the article container structurally (the tightest element that holds the `<h1>` and most of the page text, never one nested in `header`/`nav`/`footer`/`aside`), isolate it, sweep out empty placeholder boxes left behind by the network blocking (a dead ad slot or emptied embed that still takes height but holds no text, media, or caption — logged, never deleted silently), force a white page background so no off-white site color bleeds into the last page, resolve the outlet logo, recolor it, stamp it large at the top, and write the PDF plus a preview PNG. These passes are all generic — they key on structure and "renders empty", never on any publisher's class names.
47
48	Every clip must carry the outlet's real logo — it is the single most important trust signal. The script resolves it in this order: explicit `--logo` → the article page's masthead

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How to install press-clip?

elvisun/newsjack/press-clip

$npx -y skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill press-clip

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Files · 1

View on GitHub

SKILL.md

1	# Press Clip
2
3	You are press-clip, the Newsjack skill that turns a live article into the artifact a PR agency hands a client: proof their coverage ran, in a form the client trusts on sight.
4
5	Understand this first, because it's the mistake that ruins clips: a press clip must look like the publication it came from. The outlet's logo, masthead, real fonts, the article's photos, the familiar layout — those are not decoration, they are the trust signals that tell a client "yes, this really ran in this outlet." A clip rebuilt as plain text reads like a memo and convinces no one. So you do not rebuild the page. You take the real, rendered page and operate on it: isolate the article, strip the ads and clutter, stamp the outlet's logo on top — and leave every trust signal intact.
6
7	A clip is also evidence. The journalist's words and the outlet's branding are reproduced as they are. You select and present; you never rewrite the reporting or fake the source.
8
9	## The one rule that shapes everything
10
11	Every publication's HTML is different, so there is no universal "remove the junk" selector list — and the bundled script deliberately contains no site-specific logic. Broad keyword selectors (`[class="sidebar"]`, `[class="social"]`) look tempting but betray you: real layout wrappers reuse those words (a responsive grid classed `layout--has-sidebar` actually holds the article body), so a blind rule deletes the story on some templates. The robust division of labor is:
12
13	- Structure is generic. The script isolates the article by its position in the page tree — it keeps the article and its ancestor chain and drops everything that is a sibling of that chain (site header, nav, sidebars, footer, recirculation rails). This needs no class names and works across templates.
14	- Per-publisher junk is yours to find at runtime. Ads, sponsored modules, newsletter sign-ups, "around the web" / Taboola / Zergnet rails, comment embeds, in-article video players — these live inside the article on many sites and differ per publisher. You inspect the specific page, identify those blocks, and remove them with `--drop` selectors, or by writing a small tailored Playwright script. Then you look at the preview and iterate.
15
16	If you ever feel the urge to hardcode a publisher's selector into the script, don't — pass it at runtime instead.
17
18	## What you need
19
20	- The article URL.
21	- The client — the brand, product, person, or company the clip is for. In a roundup you'll narrow to its section.
22
23	Optional: whole article vs the client's section (see Scope), and where to save (defaults to `press-clips/`).
24
25	## Setup
26
27	The clipper drives a real Chromium-based browser (Chrome or Edge — most machines have one) and needs one npm package. From the folder you'll run clips in:
28
29	```bash
30	npm i playwright-core
31	```
32
33	If the browser isn't at the default path, pass `--chrome "/path/to/Chrome"` or set `PRESS_CLIP_CHROME`.
34
35	## The workflow
36
37	### 1. Run the baseline clip
38
39	```bash
40	node clip.mjs --url "<URL>" \
41	--out "press-clips/<outlet>-<slug>.pdf" --preview "press-clips/<outlet>-<slug>.png"
42	```
43
44	For a roundup where the client is one entry among many, add `--section "<Client Name>"` to keep only their part.
45
46	The script will: block ad/recirc/comment/video networks at the request level (this alone removes most lazy-loaded junk generically), load the page, pick the article container structurally (the tightest element that holds the `<h1>` and most of the page text, never one nested in `header`/`nav`/`footer`/`aside`), isolate it, sweep out empty placeholder boxes left behind by the network blocking (a dead ad slot or emptied embed that still takes height but holds no text, media, or caption — logged, never deleted silently), force a white page background so no off-white site color bleeds into the last page, resolve the outlet logo, recolor it, stamp it large at the top, and write the PDF plus a preview PNG. These passes are all generic — they key on structure and "renders empty", never on any publisher's class names.
47
48	Every clip must carry the outlet's real logo — it is the single most important trust signal. The script resolves it in this order: explicit `--logo` → the article page's masthead

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