An AI-powered YouTube assistant that provides instant video breakdowns and tracks your favorite creators for new upload notifications.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install creator-feed-watch
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install creator-feed-watch using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Creator Feed Watch?
Creator Feed Watch is a sophisticated tool within the Openclaw Skills ecosystem designed to streamline how users consume and monitor YouTube content. By leveraging advanced transcript extraction and AI-driven synthesis, it transforms lengthy videos into concise, actionable summaries featuring key points and unique value insights. It serves as a bridge between passive watching and active information gathering, ensuring you capture the essence of a video in seconds.
Beyond simple analysis, this skill functions as a personal media scout. It allows users to follow specific creators and automatically monitors their channels for new activity. Whether you are conducting competitive research or staying updated on industry trends, Creator Feed Watch ensures you never miss a critical update while saving you hours of manual playback time.
Creator Feed Watch Use Cases
- Rapidly summarizing long-form YouTube videos to extract core insights without watching the full content.
- Monitoring specific industry experts or competitors by following their channels for automated upload alerts.
- Generating structured briefing cards for new video releases to share with teams or save for research.
- Analyzing video value when subtitles are unavailable using metadata-based fallback processing.
- Organizing a personalized watchlist of YouTube creators for centralized content tracking.
How Creator Feed Watch Works
- The user provides a YouTube link, handle, or channel ID which the skill captures and normalizes.
- The skill invokes the analysis engine to fetch video metadata, including titles, descriptions, and transcripts.
- If a transcript is available, it performs a deep-text analysis; otherwise, it falls back to a metadata-centric summary with a warning note.
- A visual report is generated using a structured template featuring emojis and bold headers for easy scannability.
- Upon user confirmation, the skill adds the creator to a local persistence layer for ongoing monitoring.
- The system periodically checks the watchlist and prepares update cards whenever a new upload is detected.
Creator Feed Watch Setup
To integrate this capability into your environment, ensure you have the necessary environment variables configured for optimal API performance.
# Install the skill via the Openclaw Skills manager
openclaw install creator-feed-watch
# Optional: Configure your YouTube Data API Key for higher reliability
export YOUTUBE_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"
Creator Feed Watch Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill manages data through a local persistence model to track your followed creators and video metadata.
| Component | Format | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Watchlist | JSON | Stores channel IDs, names, and the last checked timestamp. |
| Metadata | Object | Normalizes disparate YouTube URL formats into stable IDs. |
| Transcripts | Text | Temporary storage for processing AI-generated summaries. |
| Update Cards | Markdown | Structured templates used for delivery notifications. |
Creator Feed Watch Advanced Features
- Multi-language adaptation that responds in the user's native tongue while maintaining template structure.
- Automated fallback logic that switches to public feed scraping if API quotas are exceeded.
- Support for multiple input types including @handles, short URLs (youtu.be), and standard watch links.
- Integration-ready send adapters for real-time delivery of notifications to external messaging platforms.
- Deep transcript analysis providing verb-centric action items and unique value propositions for every video analyzed.
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