Paragraph for OpenClaw

OpenClaw skill enabling automated creation, retrieval, subscriber management, and tokenized engagement with Web3-native blog posts on Paragraph.com.

Paragraph OpenClaw Skill

Overview

Paragraph.com reimagines blogging for the decentralized era. Posts are stored onchain, can be minted as NFTs (coins), and communities can own and govern content. This skill gives OpenClaw agents full programmatic access to Paragraph's API, enabling automated publishing workflows, subscriber management, and token-gated content strategies.

Why integrate Paragraph with OpenClaw?

• Automated content pipelines: Schedule regular posts, cross-post from other platforms, or auto-publish research reports
• Tokenized engagement: Track coin holders, distribute rewards, and build onchain communities
• Newsletter automation: Manage subscriber lists, segment audiences, and trigger send-outs without manual work
• Decentralized permanence: Your content lives on the blockchain, immune to platform takedowns
• Monetization ready: Built-in token economics mean you can launch social tokens around your writing

This skill is production-ready for creators, DAOs, and Web3 projects that want to treat blogging as a protocol, not a siloed service.

Features in Depth

Post Management

Create posts with rich Markdown, categories, and optional newsletter dispatch. Paragraph handles onchain anchoring automatically. You can:

• Publish instantly or wait for onchain confirmation (waitForProcessing)
• Assign categories for discoverability
• Attach images and embedded content via Markdown
• Retrieve posts by ID or human-readable slug
• List recent posts with or without full content

Note: Updating posts isn't supported by Paragraph's API yet. To "edit", you delete and recreate (preserving slug if possible).

Publication Control

Every Paragraph account has one or more publications (think: multi-author blogs under one roof). This skill can:

• Auto-detect your primary publication using just an API key
• Fetch publication metadata (name, slug, custom domains, settings)
• Look up publications by their ENS-style domain (e.g., myblog.paragraph.eth)

Subscriber Relationship Management

Build and nurture your audience:

• Add subscribers individually via email or wallet address
• Tag subscribers for segmentation (e.g., "premium", "nft-holder", "early-adopter")
• Import bulk lists via CSV (ideal for migrating from Substack, Ghost, etc.)
• Track subscriber count over time
• Double opt-in support for GDPR compliance

CSV format for import:

email,wallet,tags
[e-mail],,tag1,tag2
[e-mail],0x123...,tag3

Token & Coin Operations

Paragraph's killer feature: every post can have a coin (social token). This skill exposes:

• Get coin details by ID (supply, holders, price)
• Look up coins by contract address (for external tracking)
• Discover trending/popular coins across the platform
• List coin holders (with pagination) — useful for airdrops or community analysis

Coins enable creators to launch micro-economies around their content. Readers can buy/sell the coin, aligning incentives around the writer's success.

User & Feed Discovery

• Get user profiles by internal ID or linked wallet
• Fetch the global "For You" feed or get posts filtered by tag
• Combine with coin data to identify influential writers

Setup Guide

Step 1: Get your Paragraph API key

1. Log into Paragraph
2. Navigate to Account Settings → Integrations
3. Click "Generate API Key"
4. Copy the key (starts with para_ or similar)

Step 2: Find your publication slug

Your publication slug is the URL-friendly name used in your blog's address:

• If your blog is myblog.paragraph.eth, the slug is myblog
• You can also find it in the dashboard under Publication Settings
• Alternatively, set only PARAGRAPH_API_KEY and call paragraph_getMyPublication to auto-discover

Step 3: Configure OpenClaw

Add to your OpenClaw environment (config file or export):

export PARAGRAPH_API_KEY="pk_live_xxxxxxxx"
export PARAGRAPH_PUBLICATION_SLUG="myblog"

Restart or reload OpenClaw to pick up the variables.

Step 4: Verify

# In an OpenClaw agent session
tools.paragraph_testConnection({})  # should return success: true
tools.paragraph_getMyPublication({})  # should return your publication data

Real-World Use Cases

Automated Research Publishing

If you run a Web3 research DAO, use OpenClaw to:

1. Scrape or generate daily market reports
2. Format them in Markdown with charts
3. Publish to Paragraph via paragraph_createPost
4. Mint a coin for each report to create prediction markets
5. Notify subscribers with the new slug

Token-Gated Newsletter

1. Build a list of wallet holders from paragraph_listCoinHolders
2. Export to CSV and import as premium subscribers
3. Create a posts with exclusive insights
4. Use sendNewsletter: true to push to that segment only

Cross-Platform Syndication

• Publish to Paragraph first (onchain timestamp)
• Cross-post to Mirror, Medium, or Twitter with proof of originality
• Track engagement across platforms using coin metrics

Personal Content Archive

Back up all your blog content to your own knowledge base using OpenClaw's knowledge-management skill alongside this one — parse posts with paragraph_listPosts, extract content, and store locally in a structured format.

Error Handling & Best Practices

Rate Limits

Paragraph API has rate limits per API key. If you hit limits:

• Implement exponential backoff (wait 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s...)
• Batch operations (e.g., import subscribers instead of individual adds)
• Cache frequently accessed data (publication info, user profiles)

Onchain Delays

When waitForProcessing: false, the post returns immediately but the slug may be undefined for a few seconds/minutes while the transaction confirms. Strategies:

• Poll paragraph_getPostBySlug with the returned id until slug appears
• Or just set waitForProcessing: true for simpler flow (slower)

CSV Import Quirks

• File must be UTF-8 plain text
• Headers: email,wallet,tags (tags are comma-separated within the cell)
• At least one of email or wallet must be present per row
• Duplicate emails/wallets are skipped by Paragraph

Invalid API Keys

Common causes:

• Key from test environment used in production (or vice versa)
• Key accidentally revoked
• Copy-paste error (extra whitespace)

Use paragraph_testConnection to validate.

Implementation Details

• Written in pure JavaScript (ES modules)
• Uses Node's built-in fetch (Node.js 19+ / OpenClaw's Node 24)
• Zero external dependencies → minimal attack surface, easy to audit
• Tools are pure functions — easy to test and compose
• Error responses include human-readable messages from Paragraph API

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Likely Cause	Fix
Not logged in from any tool	PARAGRAPH_API_KEY missing/invalid	Set correct key, restart agent
Publication not found	Slug typo or wrong publication	Verify slug via dashboard or getMyPublication
Slug undefined after create	waitForProcessing: false and fast polling	Wait a few seconds and retry, or use waitForProcessing: true
Rate limit exceeded	Too many requests in short time	Add delays, batch calls, or upgrade Paragraph plan
CSV import: invalid format	Not CSV, wrong headers, binary mode	Ensure UTF-8 text with exact header row

Version History

• 1.2.0 (2026-03-10) — Republished; added source metadata, comprehensive docs, license clarification
• 1.1.0 — Added coin holder listing, enhanced user lookup
• 1.0.0 — Initial release with posts, publications, subscribers, coins, feed

License

ISC © Phil (OpenClaw)

Contributing

This skill lives at: https://github.com/ClaireAICodes/openclaw-skill-paragraph

Issues and PRs welcome. Please test against a Paragraph sandbox account before submitting.