pi-bangla-news

A Pi extension that scrapes latest public headlines from Bangladeshi news sites using Scrapling.

Installation

# After the package is published to npm:
pi install npm:pi-bangla-news

# Or install directly from a local clone:
pi install /path/to/pi-bangla-news

Prerequisites

This extension requires the Scrapling Python package (scrapling[ai]). Install it in one of these ways:

# Option A: pipx (recommended — global install, always in PATH)
pipx install 'scrapling[ai]'

# Option B: pip install
pip install 'scrapling[ai]'

# Option C: project-local venv (inside the cloned repo)
cd /path/to/pi-bangla-news
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install 'scrapling[ai]'

The extension auto-detects a .venv/bin/scrapling next to the package or falls back to scrapling in $PATH.

Usage

Via slash command

/bangla-news
/bangla-news election

The agent calls bangla_news_scrape and summarizes the results.

Via natural language

Scrape the latest Bangladeshi news headlines

Show me sports news from Bangladesh

What's the latest from Prothom Alo?

Supported Sites

| Site | URL | |------|-----| | Prothom Alo | prothomalo.com | | Jugantor | jugantor.com | | Kaler Kantho | kalerkantho.com | | BDNews24 Bangla | bangla.bdnews24.com | | Samakal | samakal.com | | The Daily Ittefaq | ittefaq.com.bd | | Bangladesh Pratidin | bd-pratidin.com | | Amar Desh | amardesh.com | | Janakantha | dailyjanakantha.com | | Ajker Patrika | ajkerpatrika.com | | The Daily Star | thedailystar.net | | Dhaka Tribune | dhakatribune.com | | The Business Standard | tbsnews.net |

Tool: bangla_news_scrape

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description | |-----------|------|---------|-------------| | sites | string[] | all | Filter by host (e.g. ["prothomalo.com"]) | | query | string | — | Keyword filter for headlines | | limitPerSite | number | 8 | Max headlines per site (max 25) | | includeSnippets | boolean | true | Include short text snippets | | timeoutSeconds | number | 15 | Timeout per site |

Architecture

Agent calls bangla_news_scrape
  → Extension spawns scrapling mcp (MCP server)
  → JSON-RPC handshake (initialize)
  → calls get for each news homepage
  → parses HTML links in TypeScript
  → formats results as markdown

License

MIT