hermes-skills/skills/devops/ops-portal-and-collector/references/daily-feed-summary-known-limitations.md

Daily Feed Summary — Known Limitations

Repository file: /root/.hermes/scripts/daily-feed-summary.py Cron job: daily-tech-digest (11:00 daily via Hermes cron)

Broken Sources

Top Gear (topgear.com/car-news)

• Status: [BROKEN] Scraping returns 0 articles
• Symptom: The TGLinkParser finds no matching <a href="/car-news/"> elements
• Likely cause: Site structure changed — Top Gear uses a JS-heavy frontend (Next.js or similar) that renders article links dynamically. The current parser relies on finding <a href="/car-news/..."> with a title attribute in the initial HTML, which no longer exists
• Impact: Minor — Top Gear returns 0 articles silently. The digest continues without error
• Discovered: Jul 6, 2026 (first documented failure)
• Fix required: Switch to headless browser scraping (Playwright) or use an RSS/compat feed if available. LATER: Monitor if Top Gear adds RSS

Python Dependencies

The script needs feedparser in the Hermes venv. See the SKILL.md "Hermes Cron Script Dependencies" section for install patterns.

Verifying Full Output

/root/hermes-assistant/venv/bin/python3 /root/.hermes/scripts/daily-feed-summary.py

For email delivery:

/root/hermes-assistant/venv/bin/python3 /root/.hermes/scripts/daily-feed-summary.py --email