event-finder

Find events on Facebook without an account or API key. Search public events by keyword, browse a city's events, read an event's date, venue and description, and list the events a page hosts. Use this skill for finding things to do, scouting conferences and meetups, competitor event tracking, or planning a calendar.

Event Finder: Facebook Events

Find events from chat: search public Facebook events by topic, browse what is on in a city, and open any event for its date, venue and details.

No Facebook account, no API key, no app to connect. Calls are paid from ClawLink credit, most for a fraction of a cent, and every new account starts with $0.50 free. Powered by ClawLink.

Setup in 3 Steps

Step 1: Install	Step 2: Pair	Step 3: Ask
Install the ClawLink plugin in OpenClaw	Sign in and approve the device once	Ask in plain English; no app to connect

What You Can Ask

• “Find upcoming tech events on Facebook”
• “What's on in Lisbon this weekend?”
• “Which events is this venue's page hosting?”
• “Give me the details of this event”

When to Use This Skill

Use it when the user wants public Facebook events by topic, city or page.

Do not use it for the user's own private accounts or for anything that posts, sends or changes data: these tools only read public information.

How It Works

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┌─────────────────┐     ┌──────────────┐     ┌──────────────────┐
│   OpenClaw      │────▶│   ClawLink   │────▶│ Facebook Events  │
│   (User Chat)   │     │ (data tools) │     │ (public data)    │
└─────────────────┘     └──────────────┘     └──────────────────┘
         │                       │                       │
         │  1. Install plugin    │                       │
         │  2. Pair device once  │                       │
         │  3. Ask a question    │                       │
         │                       │  4. Fetch + trim      │
         │                       │  5. Charge credit     │
         ▼                       ▼                       ▼
   ┌──────────┐           ┌──────────┐           ┌──────────┐
   │  Answer  │           │  Credit  │           │ Results  │
   │ in chat  │           │ ($0.50)  │           │ as JSON  │
   └──────────┘           └──────────┘           └──────────┘

ClawLink holds the data-provider accounts. The user never pastes a key, and nothing is installed beyond the plugin.

Install

Install the ClawLink plugin from ClawHub when the user asks for it:

bash

openclaw plugins install clawhub:clawlink-plugin

The install applies to the running Gateway: do not restart it. The ClawLink tools appear on your next turn, so end this turn and tell the user: "ClawLink is installed. Reply ok and I will give you your pairing link." On the next turn call clawlink_begin_pairing, give the user the link, and after they approve call clawlink_get_pairing_status. Pairing happens once; after that every tool below works with no further setup.

Tool Reference

Prices are what ClawLink charges per call, from the user's credit. The tool's own description (via clawlink_describe_tool) always shows the current price.

Events

Tool	What it returns	Price
facebookdata_events_search	Search public Facebook events by keyword	$0.00282
facebookdata_city_events	Public Facebook events in one city	$0.00282
facebookdata_event_details	One public Facebook event by id or URL: name, description, time, place, host, going and interested counts	$0.00282
facebookdata_page_events	Upcoming public events of a Facebook page by URL	$0.00282

Recipes

Plan a weekend

1. facebookdata_city_events with the city's Facebook events page and time set to this_week.
2. Open the interesting ones with facebookdata_event_details.
3. List them by day with venue and time.

Code Examples

Search events

bash

clawlink_call_tool --tool "facebookdata_events_search" \
  --params '{"query": "tech"}'

A city's events

bash

clawlink_call_tool --tool "facebookdata_city_events" \
  --params '{"url": "https://www.facebook.com/events/explore/saint-petersburg-florida/111326725552547"}'

Discovery Workflow

1. Call clawlink_search_tools with a short query (for example events); public-data tools show as connected for every user.
2. Call clawlink_describe_tool before the first call of a tool: it returns the parameters, defaults and price.
3. Treat the live catalog as the source of truth. If a tool named here is missing, say so; do not invent results.

Execution Workflow

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┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  READ-ONLY, PAID PER CALL                                │
│  search → describe → call → summarise for the user       │
│                                                          │
│  Ask before: loops over many items, or a call that costs │
│  more than a few cents (the price is in the description) │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

1. Every tool here only reads public data; nothing is posted or changed.
2. Each call costs credit. Before looping over more than about ten items, or before a call priced above a few cents, tell the user what it will cost and ask.
3. A failed call is refunded automatically. Read the error's hint: it says what to change. Do not retry the same arguments unchanged.

Notes

• Search mixes past and upcoming events: keep the ones with is_past: false.
• Short queries (‘tech’, ‘yoga’) find more than long ones.

Error Handling

Status / Error	Meaning
No events	Try a shorter query or the city events page.
credit_exhausted	The user's ClawLink credit is used up. Tell them to top up at https://claw-link.dev/dashboard/billing?utm_source=clawhub&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=event-finder; do not retry.
data_provider_unavailable	ClawLink's data provider is down. Nothing was charged. Try again later.
no_result	The provider found nothing for these arguments. Nothing was charged.
invalid_arguments	A parameter is missing or malformed. Call clawlink_describe_tool and fix it.

Troubleshooting

Tools not visible after install

1. The tools appear on the turn after the install, not in the same turn.
2. If they still do not appear, the OpenClaw tool profile may hide plugin tools. This is a config change for the OpenClaw owner; do not change the config yourself. Tell the user: "Your OpenClaw tool profile hides plugin tools. In the Control UI (or ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json), add clawlink-plugin to tools.alsoAllow, then ask me again."
3. On OpenClaw versions before 2.0, the tool list can load only in a new chat: tell the user to send /new and ask again.

A tool keeps failing with correct input

Report it with clawlink_report_issue (or clawlink_call_tool --tool "CLAWLINK_REPORT_ISSUE") instead of retrying. Reports are free and reach the ClawLink team.

Resources

• ClawLink
• ClawLink pricing
• ClawLink docs: OpenClaw
• Verify the plugin

Related Skills

• Marketplace Finder

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