jamditis/claude-skills-journalism
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1Web ScrapingWeb scraping is an agent skill that teaches reliable, ethical content extraction using a cascade architecture: lightweight HTTP and trafilatura first, then heavier browser automation when sites block bots or hide content behind paywalls. Solo builders use it when validating ideas that depend on public web data, building news or research agents, or prototyping ETL without paid data vendors. The readme structures work around ScrapingResult objects, pluggable Scraper implementations, and explicit tracking of which method succeeded—so agents do not stop at the first 403. It covers both .py scripts and notebook async Playwright flows, plus specialized tools for video and Instagram-style sources. Invoke it when implementing scraping cascades, handling paywalls responsibly, or processing social feeds—not for hammering sites without rate limits or terms review. Complexity is intermediate due to Playwright, stealth plugins, and fallback debugging. Outputs are Python modules with cascade orchestration and extraction pipelines ready to wire into validation scripts or Build-phase ingestion jobs.5.1kinstalls2Academic WritingAcademic Writing is a journey-wide agent skill that systematizes scholarly work for researchers, grad students, and indie builders publishing rigorous writeups—not just blog posts. It encodes research design basics such as FINER-scoped questions and explicit question types, then extends into literature reviews, grant proposals, citation hygiene, peer-review preparation, open-access decisions under Plan S and the 2026 OSTP Nelson Memo, preprint posting, persistent identifiers, contributor taxonomy, preregistration, and transparent LLM-use disclosure to journals and funders. Solo operators wearing every hat can invoke it whenever a document must withstand external scrutiny: thesis chapters, evaluation reports for agent benchmarks, whitepapers for a micro-SaaS, or compliance-heavy grant appendices. Because triggers span the full research lifecycle, placement on Validate scope is the shelf anchor, but examples in Idea discovery, Build documentation, Ship review, and Grow content marketing all apply. The skill teaches process and communication norms; it does not replace IRB, legal review, or reference managers—you still plug in Zotero, institutional templates, and funder-specific forms.2.1kinstalls3Page MonitoringPage Monitoring is an agent skill that teaches solo builders and small newsroom workflows how to watch web pages for visual or DOM changes, downtime, and impending removals. It maps commercial monitors and free/self-hosted stacks so you can pick alert speed, history depth, and login-protected coverage without guessing quotas that shift year to year. You learn when element-level Distill checks beat full-page Visualping, when UptimeRobot is enough for availability-only, and how ChangeTower-style archiving supports compliance trails. The methodology fits indie newsletters, watchdog reporters, and operators who must know the moment a terms page, pricing table, or primary source edits—or vanishes. Use it while validating what to track, during launch when competitors ship, and in production when legal or editorial policy requires a preserved snapshot.512installs