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docs: v2.9.0 release — ScrapeCreators Reddit default, top comments, smart discovery

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The AI world reinvents itself every month. This skill keeps you current.
`/last30days` researches your topic across **Reddit, X, YouTube, and the web** from the last 30 days, finds what the community is actually upvoting, sharing, and saying on camera, and writes you a prompt that works today, not six months ago.
`/last30days` researches your topic across **Reddit, X, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Hacker News, Polymarket, and the web** from the last 30 days, finds what the community is actually upvoting, sharing, betting on, and saying on camera, and writes you a grounded narrative with real citations.
## Three Headline Features
## Three Headline Features in v2.9
**1. Open-class skill with watchlists.** Add any topic to a watchlist -- your competitors, specific people, emerging technologies -- and /last30days re-researches it on demand or via cron. Designed for always-on environments like [Open Claw](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw). SQLite-backed with FTS5 full-text search.
**1. ScrapeCreators Reddit as default.** One `SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY` now covers Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram — three sources, one key. No more `OPENAI_API_KEY` required for Reddit search. Faster, more reliable, and simpler to configure.
**2. YouTube transcripts as a 4th source.** When yt-dlp is installed, /last30days automatically searches YouTube, grabs view counts, and extracts auto-generated transcripts from the top videos. A 20-minute review contains 10x the signal of a single post -- now the skill reads it. Inspired by [@steipete](https://x.com/steipete)'s yt-dlp + [summarize](https://github.com/steipete/summarize) toolchain.
**2. Smart subreddit discovery.** Relevance-weighted scoring replaces pure frequency count. Each candidate subreddit is scored by `frequency × recency × topic-word match`, and a `UTILITY_SUBS` blocklist filters noise subs like r/tipofmytongue. Search "Claude Code skills" and get r/ClaudeAI, r/ClaudeCode, r/openclaw — not generic programming subs.
**3. Works in OpenAI Codex CLI.** Same skill, same engine, same four sources. Install to `~/.agents/skills/last30days` and invoke with `$last30days`.
**3. Top comments elevated.** The best comment on each Reddit thread now carries a 10% weight in engagement scoring and displays prominently with `💬` and upvote counts. Reddit's value is in the comments — now the skill surfaces them.
Plus: **Bundled X search** -- vendored Bird GraphQL client (MIT). No external CLI, no npm install, no API keys needed. Just Node.js 22+ and your browser cookies.
Plus: **Instagram Reels** (v2.8), **Polymarket prediction markets** (v2.5), **YouTube transcripts** (v2.1), **bundled X search** — no external CLI needed.
## Real Results (verified Feb 15)
## Beta Test Results (v2.9)
| Topic | Reddit | X | YouTube | Web |
|-------|--------|---|---------|-----|
| Nano Banana Pro | -- | 32 posts, 164 likes | 5 videos, 98K views, 5 transcripts | 10 pages |
| Seedance 2.0 access | 3 threads, 114 upvotes | 31 posts, 191 likes | 20 videos, 685K views, 4 transcripts | 10 pages |
| OpenClaw use cases | 35 threads, 1,130 upvotes | 23 posts | 20 videos, 1.57M views, 5 transcripts | 10 pages |
| YouTube thumbnails | 7 threads, 654 upvotes | 32 posts, 110 likes | 18 videos, 6.15M views, 5 transcripts | 30 pages |
| AI generated ads | 12 threads | 29 posts, 101 likes | 3 videos, 83K views, 3 transcripts | 30 pages |
| Topic | Time | Threads | Discovered Subreddits |
|-------|------|---------|----------------------|
| Claude Code skills | 77.1s | 99 | r/ClaudeAI, r/ClaudeCode, r/openclaw |
| Kanye West | 71.7s | 84 | r/hiphopheads, r/NFCWestMemeWar, r/Kanye |
| Anthropic odds | 68.0s | 65 | r/Anthropic, r/ClaudeAI, r/OpenAI |
| Best rap songs lately | 68.9s | 114 | r/BestofRedditorUpdates, r/rap, r/TeenageRapFans |
| Nano Banana Pro | 66.6s | 99 | r/GeminiAI, r/nanobanana2pro, r/macbookpro |
## What's New
### Added
- Open-class skill with watchlist, briefing, and history modes
- YouTube search + transcript extraction via yt-dlp
- OpenAI Codex CLI compatibility
- Bundled Twitter/X search (vendored Bird GraphQL, MIT)
- Native web search backends (Parallel AI, Brave, OpenRouter/Perplexity Sonar Pro)
- `--diagnose` flag for source status checking
- `--store` flag for SQLite accumulation
- Conversational first-run experience (NUX)
- ScrapeCreators Reddit backend with keyword search and subreddit discovery
- Smart subreddit discovery with relevance-weighted scoring
- Utility subreddit blocklist (`UTILITY_SUBS`)
- Top comment scoring (10% engagement weight) and prominent rendering
- Comment excerpts increased to 400 chars, insights raised to 10
### Changed
- Two-phase search architecture (entity-aware drill-down)
- Reddit JSON enrichment for real engagement metrics
- Smarter query construction with auto-retry on 0 results
- Engagement-weighted scoring (relevance 45%, recency 25%, engagement 30%)
- `--days=N` configurable lookback (thanks @jonthebeef)
- `primaryEnv` → `SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY` (one key for Reddit, TikTok, Instagram)
- Reddit engagement scoring: `0.55/0.40/0.05` → `0.50/0.35/0.05/0.10`
- SKILL.md synthesis instructions emphasize quoting top comments
### Fixed
- YouTube/Reddit timeout resilience
- Reddit 429 rate limit fail-fast
- Eager import crash in Codex environments
- X search returning 0 results on popular topics
- Windows Unicode crash (thanks @JosephOIbrahim)
- Utility sub noise in subreddit discovery
- Reddit no longer requires `OPENAI_API_KEY`
## New Contributors
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git clone https://github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill.git ~/.agents/skills/last30days
```
30 days of research. 30 seconds of work. Four sources. Zero stale prompts.
30 days of research. 30 seconds of work. Eight sources. Zero stale prompts.