Polymarket News Monitor 📰🔔

Stay informed about Polymarket updates, security alerts, and critical events

Automatically monitors official Polymarket sources and alerts you when something important happens.

Features

📊 Monitored Sources

• The Oracle (news.polymarket.com) - Official Polymarket blog
• Breaking News - Real-time updates from polymarket.com
• API Status - CLOB API health monitoring

🚨 Alert Types

• 🔴 Critical: Security incidents, API outages, exploits
• 🟠 High: Breaking changes, maintenance, regulatory updates
• 🟡 Medium: General announcements, feature updates

🎯 Smart Detection

• Keyword-based importance scoring
• Duplicate detection (remembers seen articles)
• Configurable alert thresholds
• Multiple notification methods

Quick Start

Installation

# Clone skill
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/polymarket-news-monitor.git
cd polymarket-news-monitor

# Install (no dependencies!)
python3 scripts/polymarket-monitor.py

Basic Usage

# Run once
python3 scripts/polymarket-monitor.py

# With custom data directory
python3 scripts/polymarket-monitor.py --data-dir /path/to/data

# Lower threshold (more alerts)
python3 scripts/polymarket-monitor.py --min-importance 2

Cron Setup (Recommended)

# Check every 30 minutes
*/30 * * * * /path/to/polymarket-monitor.py --data-dir /path/to/data

# Check every hour with notifications
0 * * * * /path/to/polymarket-monitor.py --config config.json

Configuration

Config File (config.json)

{
  "data_dir": "./data",
  "check_interval": 1800,
  "min_importance": 4,
  "notification": {
    "enabled": true,
    "method": "webhook",
    "webhook": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/YOUR/WEBHOOK/URL"
  }
}
}

Notification Methods

| Method | Description | Setup | |--------|-------------|-------| | console | Print to stdout | Default, no setup | | webhook | HTTP POST to URL | Set webhook URL | | telegram | Telegram bot (coming soon) | Set telegram_token and chat_id | | email | Email alerts (coming soon) | Set SMTP credentials |

Importance Scoring

Keywords (2 points each)

• security, maintenance, api, update, regulation
• usdc, withdrawal, deposit, outage, downtime

Security Alerts (5 points each)

• phishing, hack, exploit, scam, fraud
• private key, seed phrase, credential, attack

Critical Patterns (+3 points)

• system.*down, security.*incident
• api.*deprecated, withdrawal.*disabled

Alert Levels

| Score | Level | Action | |-------|-------|--------| | ≥ 7 | 🔴 Critical | Immediate notification | | 4-6 | 🟠 High | Standard notification | | 2-3 | 🟡 Medium | Log only (if min_importance ≤ 3) |

Output Example

🔍 Polymarket News Monitor
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[2026-02-21 14:08:16] Starting Polymarket News Monitor
[2026-02-21 14:08:16] =
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[2026-02-21 14:08:16] Checking The Oracle...
[2026-02-21 14:08:17] Found: 5 new articles
[2026-02-21 14:08:17] Checking API status...
[2026-02-21 14:08:18] Found: 0 issues
[2026-02-21 14:08:18] =
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[2026-02-21 14:08:18] Total: 5 items, 2 important
[2026-02-21 14:08:18] 🚨 IMPORTANT ALERTS:

🔴 **Polymarket Alert** (The Oracle) - HIGH

**New Security Guidelines Released**

🔗 URL: https://news.polymarket.com/p/security-update
📅 Time: Mon, 21 Feb 2026 13:00:00 GMT
⚡ Importance: 8/10
🏷️ Keywords: security, phishing, credential

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Data Files

| File | Description | |------|-------------| | data/news_state.json | Seen articles hash (deduplication) | | data/alerts.json | Important alerts history | | data/monitor.log | Runtime log |

API Endpoints Used

• https://news.polymarket.com/feed - RSS feed
• https://clob.polymarket.com/health - API health

Security

✅ No sensitive data stored
✅ No API keys required
✅ Read-only monitoring
✅ Local data only

Official Sources

• Blog: https://news.polymarket.com/
• Platform: https://polymarket.com
• Docs: https://docs.polymarket.com/
• Twitter: @Polymarket

Disclaimer

This is an unofficial monitoring tool. Always verify information on official Polymarket channels. Not affiliated with Polymarket.

License

MIT - Free for personal and commercial use.

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Created for ClawHub 🦞
Version: 1.0.0
Last Updated: 2026-02-21