wlzh-youtube-tracker

A script-backed Skill to maintain a list of tracked YouTube channels and periodically check for new uploads.

v3.1.0 - Self-contained Telegram Sending (2026-06-06)

Critical reliability fix, script now sends Telegram directly, no LLM relay needed.

Changes

• notify sends Telegram directly: Script calls Telegram Bot API itself, no LLM relay
• Atomic seen marking: Only marks video as seen AFTER successful Telegram send
• Auto-retry on failure: Failed sends stay "unseen", next cron cycle retries automatically
• Reads bot token from ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json: No extra config needed
• Fallback mode: If bot token unavailable, falls back to stdout output for LLM relay

Bug fix

• v3.0.0 had a critical bug: notify marked videos as seen immediately upon detection, but Telegram sending was done by LLM. If LLM failed (rate limit/timeout), videos were lost forever, marked as seen but never sent. v3.1.0 fixes this completely.

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v3.0.0 - Parallel Fetching + Notify Mode (2026-06-06)

Major performance optimization, parallel fetching, ~10x faster.

Changes

• Parallel HTTP fetching: All channels now fetch concurrently (15 parallel curl processes)
• ~10x faster: 55 channels check in ~4-5 seconds (was ~45 seconds with serial curl)
• New notify command: Outputs Telegram-ready formatted messages (📺🎬🔗 format)

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• Eliminates timeout failures (the #2 failure cause)
• No more ~24k tokens consumed per check
• Success rate expected: ~99% (was ~64%)

Why this matters

• Previous cron used isolated agentTurn: LLM → exec script → LLM interpret → send
• Each run consumed 24-95k tokens and took 45-180s, frequently hitting API rate limits
• New approach: systemEvent → exec script (4s) → send if needed → done

v2.1.0 - Proxy Support (2026-06-05)