News headlines in your Claude Code status line. Every time you send a message, a new headline appears from one of 14 sources — no API keys, no paid services.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sterlingcrispin/claudenews/main/install.sh | bash

Then restart Claude Code.

• On every message you send: A background hook fetches headlines from a random news source and queues the next headline
• In your status line: The current headline is displayed with its description, word-wrapped to your terminal width
• No repeats: Headlines cycle through a shuffled queue so you see every story before any repeat

Example output:

BBC News: First-time buyers hit as mortgage rates keep rising — More than 200
  first-time buyer deals have disappeared from the market since 6 March.
  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7gnkez3lo

Headlines are fetched via RSS using curl + Python's built-in XML parser. No API keys or third-party services required.

• macOS or Linux
• curl
• python3 (standard library only, no pip packages)
• Claude Code

The feed list lives in ~/.claude/news/fetch_headlines.sh — it's just a bash array called FEEDS. You can edit it directly, or ask Claude to do it:

"Open ~/.claude/news/fetch_headlines.sh and remove Fox News and Bloomberg from the FEEDS list"

"Add the NASA RSS feed to ~/.claude/news/fetch_headlines.sh"

Any RSS feed works. The format is "Name|https://example.com/feed.xml".

After editing, run rm ~/.claude/news_cache/queue.tsv to reset the headline queue.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sterlingcrispin/claudenews/main/uninstall.sh | bash

Three scripts in ~/.claude/news/:

• fetch_headlines.sh — Runs as a UserPromptSubmit hook. Picks a random RSS source, fetches headlines, manages a shuffle queue, and promotes the next headline for display.
• parse_rss.py — Parses RSS/Atom XML and extracts title, description (first sentence), and link as TSV.
• news_statusline.sh — Reads the current headline and word-wraps it to your terminal width for the status line.

Cache lives in ~/.claude/news_cache/.