Platform Hotspots — Multi-platform trend extraction

What it does

Platform Hotspots is a technical skill for automated hotspot discovery across multiple platforms. It provides reproducible Chrome CDP extraction commands and step-by-step runtime routing for sites that require browser automation (Zhihu, X, Xiaohongshu, Reddit, YouTube) as well as non-JS fallbacks for GitHub Trending, Hacker News, and Product Hunt. The skill outputs structured top-N lists (ranked hotspots) and cross-platform takeaways.

When to use it

Use this skill when you need reliable, repeatable scraping/extraction of trending items across social and dev platforms for research, monitoring, or content ideation. It’s intended for sessions where OpenClaw’s CDP browser is available, and warns/handles login, rate-limit, and JS-heavy site fallbacks. Ideal for scheduled hotspot collection or ad-hoc research runs.

What's included

• Scripts: explicit OpenClaw browser CDP commands and evaluation snippets for each platform (Zhihu, Xiaohongshu, X, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, HN, Product Hunt).
• References: sibling docs for Claude Code and Codex usage to run the same extractions in alternative runtimes.
• Instructions: Preflight steps for CDP user profiles, tab hygiene patterns, platform-specific extraction snippets, reliability rules (never fabricate results, skip with reason on login walls), and expected output schema.

Compatible agents

Primarily written for OpenClaw runtime with Chrome CDP. Also includes guidance for Claude Code and Codex/playwright-style integrations so agents able to run browser automation or WebFetch can use it.