DeepReader

The default web content reader for OpenClaw agents. Automatically detects URLs in messages, fetches content using specialized parsers, and saves clean Markdown with YAML frontmatter to agent memory.

Use when

• A user shares a tweet, thread, X article, or X profile and you need to read its content

• A user shares a Reddit post and you need the discussion + top comments

• A user shares a YouTube video and you need the transcript

• A user shares any blog, article, or documentation URL and you need the text

• You need to batch-read multiple URLs from a single message

Supported sources

Source Method API Key?

Twitter / X (tweets + profiles) FxTwitter API + Nitter fallback None

Reddit .json suffix API None

YouTube youtube-transcript-api None

Any URL Trafilatura + BeautifulSoup None

Usage

from deepreader_skill import run

Automatic — triggered when message contains URLs

result = run("Check this out: https://x.com/user/status/123456")

X profile snapshot

result = run("https://x.com/thdxr")

Reddit post with comments

result = run("https://www.reddit.com/r/python/comments/abc123/my_post/")

YouTube transcript

result = run("https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ")

Any webpage

result = run("https://example.com/blog/interesting-article")

Multiple URLs at once

result = run(""" https://x.com/user/status/123456 https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/xyz789/ https://example.com/article """)

Output

Content is saved as .md files with structured YAML frontmatter:

title: "Tweet by @user" source_url: "https://x.com/user/status/123456" domain: "x.com" parser: "twitter" ingested_at: "2026-02-16T12:00:00Z" content_hash: "sha256:..." word_count: 350

Configuration

Variable Default Description

DEEPREEDER_MEMORY_PATH

../../memory/inbox/

Where to save ingested content (absolute path, or relative to repo root)

DEEPREEDER_LOG_LEVEL

INFO

Logging verbosity (DEBUG , INFO , WARNING , ERROR )

How it works

URL detected → is Twitter/X? → FxTwitter API → Nitter fallback → is Reddit? → .json suffix API → is YouTube? → youtube-transcript-api → otherwise → Trafilatura (generic)

Triggers automatically when any message contains https:// or http:// .