Mark Wings Scraper Skill-Up Session Transcript (Feb 18, 2026)

Goal

1. Transform Mark Wings into a world-class web scraper/researcher agent
2. Install and configure relevant skills from ClawHub and GitHub
3. Complete a P1 research mission on current stock trading strategy trends for the Hedge project

Constraints and Preferences

• Use lower-priced OpenAI models (pinned to gpt-4o-mini)
• Review all skills for malicious code before installing
• Follow HEARTBEAT.md protocol

Done

• Researched ClawHub/awesome-openclaw-skills for relevant scraping/research skills
• Installed 5 skills: last30days (open variant), reddit-readonly, crawl4ai, topic-monitor, reddit-insights
• Security-reviewed all skills
• Configured last30days with OpenAI API key, Brave API key, X/Twitter cookies
• Pinned OpenAI model to gpt-4o-mini
• All 4 last30days sources working: OpenAI, Brave, YouTube, Bird/X
• Completed stock trading strategy trends research
• Wrote report to ~/clawd/projects/hedge/research/strategy-trends-2025-02.md
• Saved research findings and scraper skill-up plan to Second Brain
• Updated TOOLS.md and MEMORY.md

Blocked

• OpenAI Responses API Reddit search returns HTTP 400 (gpt-4o-mini may not support web_search tool)
• X/Twitter Bird CLI search returns noisy results
• reddit-insights needs API key

Key Decisions

• Pinned to gpt-4o-mini: 100x cheaper than gpt-4o
• Used reddit-readonly for direct scraping instead of last30days Reddit source
• Installed open variant of last30days for watchlists, briefings, SQLite history

Next Steps

1. Fix last30days Reddit search (test with gpt-4o)
2. npm update -g openclaw
3. Get reddit-insights.com API key
4. Improve X/Twitter search quality
5. Set up last30days watchlists
6. Install remaining priority skills: deep-scraper, firecrawl-skills

Technical Reference

• Config: ~/.config/last30days/.env
• Skills: ~/.openclaw/skills/{last30days,reddit-readonly,crawl4ai,topic-monitor,reddit-insights}
• Diagnostics: python3 scripts/last30days.py --diagnose
• reddit-readonly: node scripts/reddit-readonly.mjs search subreddit query --sort top --time month