🔌 ocplatform-pipepost

Native OpenClaw plugin for PipePost — AI-powered content curation pipeline.

Scout articles from HackerNews, Reddit, RSS, and web search → translate to any language with AI → publish to your blog, Telegram, or any webhook. All from your OpenClaw agent.

What you get

5 native tools available to your OpenClaw agent:

Tool	What it does
pipepost_run	Run a content pipeline — scout, translate, publish
pipepost_status	Health check + database stats
pipepost_init	Generate a flow YAML config from natural language params
pipepost_validate	Validate a flow config before running
pipepost_sources	List available content sources

How it works

You: "Scout HackerNews for AI articles, translate to Russian, publish to my blog"

Agent calls:
  1. pipepost_init → generates YAML flow config
  2. pipepost_validate → checks config is valid
  3. pipepost_run --dry-run → previews what it finds
  4. pipepost_run → executes the pipeline

The plugin is a thin TypeScript wrapper that calls the PipePost CLI (Python) via child process. PipePost does the heavy lifting — scouting, scoring, translating, and publishing.

Install

1. Install PipePost (Python engine)

pip install pipepost

2. Install the OpenClaw plugin

# From ClawHub
openclaw plugins install clawhub:openclaw-pipepost

# Or from GitHub
git clone https://github.com/DenSul/openclaw-pipepost
cd openclaw-pipepost && npm install && npm run build
openclaw plugins install . --dangerously-force-unsafe-install

3. Configure

Set your LLM API key:

export OPENAI_API_KEY="your-key"
export PIPEPOST_MODEL="deepseek/deepseek-chat"  # or gpt-4o, claude-sonnet, etc.

Plugin config in openclaw.json:

{
  "plugins": {
    "entries": {
      "pipepost": {
        "enabled": true,
        "config": {
          "pipepostBin": "pipepost",
          "flowsDir": "/path/to/your/flows",
          "dbPath": "/path/to/pipepost.db"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

4. Restart OpenClaw

openclaw gateway restart

Usage Examples

Create a blog pipeline

"Create a content pipeline that scouts HackerNews for AI articles, translates to Russian, and publishes to my webhook at http://myblog.com/api/posts"

Run an existing flow

"Run the HN pipeline in dry-run mode"

Check status

"What's the PipePost status? Any articles in the database?"

Generate a new config

"Generate a flow config for Reddit programming subreddits, translate to German, output as markdown"

Flow Config Example

sources:
  - name: hackernews
    type: hackernews
    min_score: 100

translate:
  model: deepseek/deepseek-chat
  target_lang: ru

destination:
  type: webhook
  url: http://localhost:8000/api/posts/auto-publish

flow:
  steps: [dedup, scout, filter, score, fetch, translate, adapt, validate, publish, post_publish]
  filter:
    keywords_exclude: ["hiring", "ask hn"]
    min_title_length: 15
  score:
    niche: tech
    max_score_candidates: 3
  adapt:
    style: blog
  storage:
    db_path: ./pipepost.db

More examples in examples/.

Supported Sources

Source	Description
HackerNews	Top stories from HN API
Reddit	Posts from configurable subreddits
RSS/Atom	Any RSS or Atom feed
Web Search	DuckDuckGo keyword search

Supported Destinations

Destination	Description
Webhook	POST JSON to any HTTP endpoint (WordPress, Ghost, custom CMS)
Telegram	Send to Telegram channels/chats via Bot API
Markdown	Save as .md files with YAML frontmatter

Requirements

• OpenClaw >= 2026.3.x
• PipePost >= 0.1.0 (pip install pipepost)
• Python >= 3.11
• Node.js >= 22 (for the plugin)
• An OpenAI-compatible LLM API key

Architecture

OpenClaw (Node.js)
    ↓ native tools
openclaw-pipepost (TypeScript plugin)
    ↓ child_process
PipePost CLI (Python)
    ↓ async pipeline
Sources → Score → Translate → Publish → Destinations

Development

git clone https://github.com/DenSul/openclaw-pipepost
cd openclaw-pipepost
npm install
npm run build     # compile TypeScript
npm run dev       # watch mode

Links

• PipePost — the Python engine
• ClawHub — plugin page
• OpenClaw — the AI assistant platform
• Example flows — ready-to-use YAML configs

License

MIT

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Built by Denis Sultanov