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