Adds LAST30DAYS_YT_SSH_HOST env var (or `~/.config/last30days/.env` key).
When set, yt-dlp YouTube search invocations are wrapped as
`ssh <host> "yt-dlp ..."` so they run on a residential-IP machine.
Motivation: when last30days runs on a datacenter VPS (Hetzner,
DigitalOcean, AWS, etc.), `ytsearch:` queries return 0 results because
YouTube's bot-wall fingerprints datacenter IP ranges before any cookie
check runs. Cookies alone don't fix this — the IP reputation is checked
first. Verified across yt-dlp stable 2026.03.17 and nightly builds.
The existing fallbacks (browser cookies, residential proxy services,
excluding YouTube) all have downsides: cookies expire, proxies cost
money, exclusion loses signal. Many users with a Mac mini, Pi, or
home server can host yt-dlp on their own residential IP — this just
needs an SSH alias and a one-line env var to wire it up.
Behaviour:
- Default (env var unset): identical to before, no shape change.
- Env var set: search command list is wrapped with `ssh -o BatchMode=yes
<host> "<shell-quoted yt-dlp invocation>"`. is_ytdlp_installed()
returns True without a local PATH check (the binary lives on the
remote host).
- Transcript path: when SSH-routing is on, skips the yt-dlp transcript
path (which writes a VTT file we couldn't easily read back over SSH)
and uses the existing _fetch_transcript_direct HTTP fallback. The
timedtext API isn't bot-walled, so this works fine on datacenter IPs.
Setup pitfall documented in the function docstring: on macOS hosts
with Homebrew, `eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv zsh)"` must
live in ~/.zshenv (not just ~/.zprofile) — non-login SSH shells don't
source .zprofile, so without this `ssh macmini "yt-dlp ..."` returns
"command not found" while interactive SSH works fine.
Tests: 10 new cases covering env var read, whitespace stripping,
empty-value handling, command wrapping passthrough/active modes,
shlex quoting, is_ytdlp_installed short-circuit, and end-to-end
search_youtube wrapping. Full test suite: 0 new failures (the 14
pre-existing failures in test_store, test_watchlist, test_setup_openclaw,
test_safari_cookies, test_version_consistency are unchanged on main).
Verified live: 0 results → 4 real hits for "claude code" search from a
Hetzner VPS routed through a Mac mini exit node on Tailscale.
Greptile flagged that `entity_reports and args.emit == "html"` appeared in
two places — once when computing the footer display path, again when calling
save_output. The else-branches differ between the two callsites (the display
needs `report.topic` as fallback; the save call needs `None` so save_output
falls back to the report's own topic), so collapsing into one shared
expression would be wrong, but hoisting just the condition into a single
`is_comparison_html` bool eliminates the risk of drift while keeping the
two callsites' fallback semantics distinct.
Adds a one-command shareable HTML mode to /last30days. The skill detects
HTML intent (explicit --emit=html / --emit:html / --html flag in
$ARGUMENTS, or natural-language asks like "give me a shareable brief",
"for Slack", "export as HTML"), runs the normal research + chat synthesis
flow, then saves a self-contained HTML file to
~/Documents/Last30Days/{topic}-brief.html. The synthesis appears in chat
as usual; the HTML is an additional artifact for sharing.
User experience:
/last30days OpenClaw --emit=html
/last30days OpenClaw, give me an HTML brief for Slack
Synthesis prints to chat. Last line of the response: "📎 Shareable brief
saved to ~/Documents/Last30Days/openclaw-brief.html". Open it, drag it
into a message, browser-print to PDF, email it.
Architecture:
- SKILL.md gets a small detection block (triggers + early exit +
MUST/MUST NOT rules + rationale) that points to a reference file.
- references/save-html-brief.md owns the implementation: capture the
synthesis verbatim into a temp file via heredoc, invoke the engine
with --emit=html --synthesis-file, save to disk, append the
confirmation line to chat.
- lib/render.py exposes render_for_html(report, synthesis_md=None) and
render_for_html_comparison(...) -- clean markdown for HTML
conversion. Omits debug file header, model-facing safety note, and
data quality warnings (those stay in engine stderr; recipients can't
act on them in a shared artifact).
- lib/html_render.py is a new module: ~200-line CSS template (dark
mode default, prefers-color-scheme switch, print stylesheet, mobile
breakpoint), stdlib-regex markdown-to-HTML converter, marker-based
META + engine-footer wrapping, PROSE_LABELS registry promoting plain
-text labels to <h2>, colophon builder.
- last30days.py adds --emit=html argparse choice and --synthesis-file
PATH flag (engine still callable directly without the skill in the
loop).
Design:
- Voice-led research brief, not corporate report. Inter + JetBrains
Mono via Google Fonts with full system fallbacks (no FOIT, works
offline). Brand purple #a855f7 (#7c3aed in light mode). Type ramp:
body 17px/400/muted, bold lead-in 17px/600/fg, h2 + .prose-label
20px/600/fg, monospace badge/meta/footer/colophon at 13-13.5px.
- 720px max-width, generous whitespace, no card layouts or shadows.
- Print stylesheet: light theme, A4 margins, [href]::after URL
footnotes, page-break-inside:avoid on the engine footer.
Templated (locked) shell:
- HTML5 boilerplate, Google Fonts <link> with preconnect, all CSS
inline.
- .badge / .meta / .engine-footer / .colophon containers.
Flexible (role-based):
- <h2> rendering covers BOTH plain ## headers (comparison mode per
LAW 4 exception) AND promoted prose labels via PROSE_LABELS
registry. Adding a new SKILL.md prose label is a one-line tuple
addition; no CSS or template changes.
- Marker-based engine boundaries (<!-- META: ... -->,
<!-- PASS-THROUGH FOOTER -->) survive the markdown converter and
get promoted post-conversion. Robust to engine output format
changes.
- Generic markdown-to-HTML for body content; future SKILL.md additions
(new sections, tables, blockquotes) render correctly without code
changes.
Tests: 30 new tests in tests/test_html_render.py covering snapshots
(rich/thin/comparison), CLI parsing, --synthesis-file end-to-end, prose
label promotion, warning exclusion from artifact, parseability via
html.parser, no-script self-containment.
No SKILL.md voice contract changes, no LAWs 1-8 changes, no new pip
dependencies, no JavaScript anywhere.
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