Crawl sources

crawl-sources

Crawl all skill registries and refresh the raw data files in data/raw/.

This skill covers the crawl step only — it does not normalize, embed, or rebuild the index. Run update-index afterward to turn fresh raw data into a searchable index.

Prerequisites

• GITHUB_TOKEN env var set (required by SkillsMP, ClawHub, and topic crawlers)
• Python dependencies installed: pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Agent Instructions

When this skill triggers, determine scope from the user's request:

User says	Scope
"crawl everything" / "all sources"	Run all five crawlers (default)
"crawl skillsmp" / "crawl github"	SkillsMP only
"crawl clawhub" / "crawl openclaw"	ClawHub only
"crawl skillhub"	SkillHub only
"crawl marketplace" / "crawl anthropic"	Marketplace only
"crawl topics" / "crawl github topics"	Topic crawler only
"quick test" / "limit N"	Add --limit N to each crawler

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Step 1 — Check prerequisites

echo "${GITHUB_TOKEN:0:4}..."

If empty, stop:

"Set GITHUB_TOKEN before crawling: export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_..."

mkdir -p data/raw

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Step 2 — Run crawlers

All sources (parallel — default):

python -m crawlers.skillsmp_crawler -o data/raw/skillsmp.jsonl &
python -m crawlers.clawhub_crawler  -o data/raw/clawhub.jsonl &
python -m crawlers.skillhub_crawler -o data/raw/skillhub.jsonl &
python -m crawlers.marketplace_crawler -o data/raw/marketplace.jsonl &
python -m crawlers.topic_crawler    -o data/raw/topic.jsonl --data-dir data/raw &
wait

Single-source variants (use when user targets one source):

# SkillsMP (GitHub code search for SKILL.md files; ~30 min full run)
python -m crawlers.skillsmp_crawler -o data/raw/skillsmp.jsonl

# ClawHub / OpenClaw (awesome-list + org/topic discovery)
python -m crawlers.clawhub_crawler -o data/raw/clawhub.jsonl

# SkillHub (HTML scrape with pagination)
python -m crawlers.skillhub_crawler -o data/raw/skillhub.jsonl

# Anthropic official marketplace
python -m crawlers.marketplace_crawler -o data/raw/marketplace.jsonl

# GitHub topic tags (claude-skill, codex-skill, agent-skill, …)
python -m crawlers.topic_crawler -o data/raw/topic.jsonl --data-dir data/raw

Useful flags (apply to any crawler):

Flag	Effect
--limit N	Cap at N records — use for quick tests
--mode incremental	Skip repos already present in the output file (preferred over --resume)
--mode full	Complete re-crawl (default)
--mode metadata	Refresh stars/ETags only, skip content fetch
--mode discover	Only fetch repos pushed since last run (date-filtered search)
--resume	Deprecated — use --mode incremental instead
--since YYYY-MM-DD	Only include repos pushed after this date (SkillsMP)
--log-level DEBUG	Verbose output
--filter-cache FILE	Path to dedup cache (default: data/filter_cache.jsonl)

Orchestrator (runs all crawlers in the right order):

python pipeline/update_crawl.py --mode incremental
python pipeline/update_crawl.py --mode full --sources clawhub,skillsmp
python pipeline/update_crawl.py --mode incremental --chain  # also runs normalize/embed/build

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Step 3 — Report record counts

After all crawlers finish:

for f in data/raw/skillsmp.jsonl data/raw/clawhub.jsonl data/raw/skillhub.jsonl data/raw/marketplace.jsonl data/raw/topic.jsonl; do
  [ -f "$f" ] && echo "$(wc -l < $f) $(basename $f)"
done

Report the counts to the user. Flag any source with 0 records as a potential failure.

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Step 4 — Suggest next step

If crawl succeeded, offer:

"Raw data is refreshed. Run the update-index skill to normalize, embed, and rebuild the FAISS index — or run it now?"

If the user says yes, hand off to the update-index skill starting at its Step 3 (Backfill metadata).

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Troubleshooting

Symptom	Likely cause	Fix
SkillsMP returns 0 records	Rate limit or bad token	Check GITHUB_TOKEN; retry with --limit 50
ClawHub hangs	GitHub API slow	Add --limit 200 for a quick run
SkillHub returns few records	Site structure changed	Run with --log-level DEBUG and inspect HTML
filter_cache.jsonl grows large	Normal — dedup cache	Safe to delete; will be rebuilt on next run