Trending Skills Monitor

Trending Skills Monitor

Discover what's new and hot in the Clawdbot skill ecosystem. Track trending skills, new releases, recent updates, and filter by your interests.

Quick Start

Basic Usage

# Check this week's trending skills
trending-skills-monitor

# Check last 14 days
trending-skills-monitor --days 14

# Filter by interests
trending-skills-monitor --interests "3D printing, coding, automation"

# Get top 10 trending
trending-skills-monitor --top 10

# Watch mode - check every hour
trending-skills-monitor --watch --interval 3600

Output Example

🔥 Trending Skills Report
============================================================
📅 2026-01-29T10:15:00.000000

✨ NEW RELEASES (Last 7 Days)
------------------------------------------------------------
  📦 webhook-listener
     Downloads: 342 | Listen for HTTP webhooks in Clawdbot... | Created: 2026-01-28

  📦 ocr-vision
     Downloads: 156 | Extract text from images using Claude vision... | Created: 2026-01-27

🔝 COMMUNITY FAVORITES (Most Installed)
------------------------------------------------------------
  🥇 #1. security-scanner
     📥 8,324 installs | ⭐ 4.8 | 📁 security

  🥈 #2. sentry-mode
     📥 7,891 installs | ⭐ 4.7 | 📁 surveillance

🔄 RECENT UPDATES
------------------------------------------------------------
  🆕 meshtastic-skill (v2.3.0)
     Updated: 2026-01-29 | Fixed GPS integration, added mesh network visualization

============================================================
📊 Total skills: 28

Features

1. Track New Skills

• Discover skills released in the last X days (configurable)
• Shows download count, description, and creation date
• Helps you stay updated with the latest releases

2. Trending Analysis

• Most installed/downloaded community favorites
• Ranked by install count or downloads
• Includes rating and category info
• Helps identify proven, popular tools

3. Monitor Updates

• Track recently updated skills
• See version changes and changelogs
• Know when your favorite skills get improvements
• Avoid missing important feature releases

4. Smart Filtering

• Filter by interests: --interests "3D printing, coding"
• Filter by category: --category "automation"
• Combined filtering for precise results
• Fuzzy keyword matching on descriptions

5. Watch Mode

• Continuous monitoring of ClawdHub
• Configurable check interval
• New skill discovery notifications
• Helps you catch trends early

Usage Examples

Example 1: Weekly Trend Report

trending-skills-monitor --days 7

Gets all new skills from the last 7 days, trending skills, and recent updates.

Example 2: Focus on Your Interests

trending-skills-monitor \
  --interests "automation, data processing" \
  --days 14 \
  --format markdown

Filters results to skills matching "automation" or "data processing" from the last 2 weeks, outputs as markdown.

Example 3: Top Skills in a Category

trending-skills-monitor \
  --category "iot" \
  --top 5 \
  --sort rating

Shows top 5 IoT skills sorted by rating.

Example 4: Watch Mode with Email Reports

# Run in background, check every 6 hours
trending-skills-monitor \
  --watch \
  --interval 21600 \
  --interests "3D printing" \
  --format markdown > /tmp/skills-report.txt

# Then pipe to email or Telegram

Example 5: Track Your Favorite Skills

Create a config file and check daily:

# config.json
{
  "interests": ["security", "automation", "data processing"],
  "days": 7,
  "category": "utility"
}

# Use it
trending-skills-monitor --config config.json --format json

Command Reference

Global Options

--days N              Look back N days for new/updated skills (default: 7)
--interests STR       Comma-separated interests to filter by
--top N               Show top N trending skills (overrides --days)
--category STR        Filter by specific category
--sort FIELD          Sort by: downloads, installs, rating, updated, new (default: downloads)
--format FORMAT       Output format: text, json, markdown (default: text)
--watch               Enable watch mode (continuous monitoring)
--interval SECS       Check interval in seconds for watch mode (default: 3600)
--config FILE         Load settings from JSON config file
--verbose             Show debug output
--help                Show this help message

Examples

# New skills from last 30 days
trending-skills-monitor --days 30

# Top 20 most installed
trending-skills-monitor --top 20 --sort installs

# Filter to automation category
trending-skills-monitor --category automation

# Multiple interests
trending-skills-monitor --interests "coding, automation, data"

# JSON output for scripting
trending-skills-monitor --format json > report.json

# Watch mode: check every 2 hours
trending-skills-monitor --watch --interval 7200

# Combine filters
trending-skills-monitor \
  --days 14 \
  --interests "security" \
  --category "surveillance" \
  --sort rating

Output Formats

Text Format (Default)

Plain text with emojis, organized in sections:

• ✨ NEW RELEASES
• 🔝 COMMUNITY FAVORITES
• 🔄 RECENT UPDATES

Great for terminal viewing and quick scanning.

Markdown Format

trending-skills-monitor --format markdown

Output:

# 🔥 Trending Skills Report

*2026-01-29T10:15:00*

## ✨ New Releases

**webhook-listener** (v1.2.0) by author-name  
Listen for HTTP webhooks in Clawdbot...  
📥 345 installs | ⭐ 4.9 | 📊 1,234 downloads

Good for documentation, reports, and posting to channels.

JSON Format

trending-skills-monitor --format json

Structured data for programmatic processing:

{
  "timestamp": "2026-01-29T10:15:00.000000",
  "new_skills": [
    {
      "id": "webhook-listener",
      "name": "webhook-listener",
      "description": "...",
      "author": "...",
      "downloads": 342,
      "installs": 345,
      "rating": 4.9,
      "category": "communication",
      "version": "1.2.0",
      "created_at": "2026-01-28T...",
      "updated_at": "2026-01-29T...",
      "tags": ["http", "webhook", "event"]
    }
  ],
  "trending_skills": [...],
  "updated_skills": [...],
  "filters": {
    "days": 7,
    "interests": [],
    "category": null,
    "sort": "downloads"
  }
}

Perfect for integration with other tools and automation.

Configuration Files

Create a JSON config file to save your preferences:

{
  "interests": [
    "3D printing",
    "coding",
    "automation"
  ],
  "days": 7,
  "category": null,
  "sort": "downloads",
  "top": 20,
  "format": "text"
}

Use it:

trending-skills-monitor --config my-config.json

Smart Filtering

The skill uses intelligent keyword matching:

Interest Matching

• Exact word match: "coding" matches "coding-tutorials"
• Substring match: "3d" matches "3d-printing" or "3d-model-viewer"
• Fuzzy matching: "3D printing" matches skills with "3D-printing", "3d printing", "3d-print"
• Description search: Searches skill descriptions, tags, and metadata

Category Matching

Built-in category aliases for common terms:

automation      → "automate", "workflow", "robot", "task"
coding          → "code", "programming", "script", "dev"
3d-printing     → "3d", "cad", "model"
data            → "analytics", "machine-learning", "ml", "ai"
web             → "http", "api", "website", "web-scraping"
iot             → "sensors", "esp32", "arduino", "hardware"
communication   → "telegram", "slack", "email", "discord"
media           → "image", "video", "audio", "photo"

Watch Mode

Continuously monitor ClawdHub for new and trending skills:

# Check every 30 minutes
trending-skills-monitor --watch --interval 1800

# Check every 6 hours with interests
trending-skills-monitor \
  --watch \
  --interval 21600 \
  --interests "security, automation"

Watch mode:

• Runs indefinitely, checking at specified interval
• Compares with previous check to find new skills
• Shows notifications when new skills are discovered
• Useful for cron jobs or systemd timers

Integration with Notifications

Watch mode output to Telegram:

# Assuming you have a message utility
trending-skills-monitor --format markdown | \
  message send --channel "alerts" --text "$(cat -)"

Integration Examples

Daily Digest Script

#!/bin/bash
# save as: /usr/local/bin/skills-digest.sh

trending-skills-monitor \
  --days 1 \
  --interests "automation, security" \
  --format markdown > /tmp/skills-today.md

# Send to Telegram, email, or store
cat /tmp/skills-today.md

Run daily via cron:

# Add to crontab
0 9 * * * /usr/local/bin/skills-digest.sh

Slack Integration

#!/bin/bash
REPORT=$(trending-skills-monitor --format json)

curl -X POST https://hooks.slack.com/services/YOUR/WEBHOOK \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d "{
    \"text\": \"🔥 New Skills This Week\",
    \"blocks\": [
      {
        \"type\": \"section\",
        \"text\": {
          \"type\": \"mrkdwn\",
          \"text\": \"$REPORT\"
        }
      }
    ]
  }"

Filter to Dashboard

Parse JSON output and filter:

# Get only highly-rated new skills
trending-skills-monitor --format json | \
  jq '.new_skills | map(select(.rating >= 4.5))'

Architecture

Components

trending-skills-monitor (CLI)

• Entry point, argument parsing
• Routes to main monitoring script

scripts/monitor.py

• Main orchestrator
• Fetches data, applies filters, formats output
• Handles watch mode logic

scripts/clawdhub_api.py

• Communicates with ClawdHub API
• Fallback to mock data for testing
• Caches responses

scripts/filter_engine.py

• Intelligent filtering by interests and categories
• Fuzzy keyword matching
• Category alias mapping

scripts/formatter.py

• Formats output (text, JSON, markdown)
• Different views (ranked, compact, detailed)

scripts/cache.py

• Simple file-based caching
• Configurable TTL (time-to-live)
• Watch mode state tracking

Data Flow

CLI args
  ↓
monitor.py (orchestrator)
  ↓
ClawdHubAPI → Fetch (new, trending, updated)
  ↓
FilterEngine → Apply interests/categories
  ↓
Formatter → Format output
  ↓
Print results

Configuration

Environment Variables

# ClawdHub API configuration
export CLAWDHUB_API_URL="https://hub.clawdbot.com/api/v1"
export CLAWDHUB_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"

Cache Location

Cache files stored at: ~/.cache/trending-skills-monitor/

Clear cache:

rm -rf ~/.cache/trending-skills-monitor/

Requirements

System Dependencies

• Python 3.7+
• requests library (pip install requests)

API Requirements

• ClawdHub API access (will work with mock data for testing)
• Optional: API key for authenticated requests

Network

• Internet connection to ClawdHub
• Graceful fallback to mock data if unavailable

Troubleshooting

No results returned

# Debug with verbose output
trending-skills-monitor --verbose

# Check if interests are matching
trending-skills-monitor --interests "automation" --verbose

# Try broader search
trending-skills-monitor --days 30

API errors

If you see API errors but want to test:

# Will use mock data
CLAWDHUB_API_URL="http://invalid" trending-skills-monitor

Watch mode not detecting new skills

# Check cache status
ls ~/.cache/trending-skills-monitor/

# Clear cache
rm ~/.cache/trending-skills-monitor/*

# Restart watch mode
trending-skills-monitor --watch --verbose

Future Enhancements

Planned features:

• Webhook notifications (Telegram, Discord, Slack)
• Scheduled reports (daily/weekly emails)
• Skill recommendations based on installed skills
• Comparison tracking ("Skills similar to X")
• Rating/review aggregation from users
• Export to calendar (upcoming skill releases)
• AI-powered skill summaries
• Skill dependency tracking

Scripts Reference

The skill includes these Python scripts:

• monitor.py - Main orchestrator (10KB)
• clawdhub_api.py - API client (8KB)
• filter_engine.py - Filtering logic (6KB)
• formatter.py - Output formatting (6KB)
• cache.py - Caching layer (2KB)

License & Support

Part of the Clawdbot ecosystem. For issues or suggestions, check the ClawdHub repository.

Last Updated: 2026-01-29 Version: 1.0.0