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OpenClaw Automation Recipes: 10 Ready-Made Workflows to Save Hours

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Automate Your Workflows with OpenClaw: 10 Ready-to-Use Recipes

Are you tired of repetitive tasks eating into your productivity? Whether you're a developer, a tech enthusiast, or someone who simply wants to streamline their daily routine, automation can be a game-changer. If you're already using OpenClaw but haven't tapped into its automation recipes yet, you're missing out on a powerful tool that can save you hours every week. Introducing the openclaw-automation-recipes skill — a collection of ten pre-built automation templates designed to handle real, everyday scenarios without the headache of complex configurations.

What You Get

These aren't just theoretical examples; they're practical, YAML-based templates that you can easily integrate into your workflow. Here's what you can expect:

  • Daily News Summaries: Automatically fetch the latest Hacker News RSS feed at 8 AM and receive a concise brief.
  • Email Auto-Replies: Set up keyword-triggered responses for common inquiries to keep your inbox manageable.
  • GitHub Issue Monitoring: Get instant Discord notifications when new issues are created in your repositories.
  • Price Tracking: Schedule periodic web checks and receive alerts when prices drop below your specified threshold.
  • Meeting Reminders: Get push notifications 15 minutes before your calendar events to stay on top of your schedule.
  • Customer Routing: Classify incoming messages and route them to the right team for efficient handling.
  • Content Publishing: Schedule and cross-post your content to multiple platforms with ease.
  • Automated Backups: Timestamp and backup your data to S3 on a cron schedule for peace of mind.
  • Social Brand Monitoring: Track mentions of your brand and flag negative sentiment for quick response.
  • Smart Scheduling: Analyze your calendar and prioritize tasks each morning to make the most of your day.

How It Works

Each recipe is a self-contained YAML file with a trigger and a chain of actions. Triggers can be schedule-based (like cron), event-based (such as email, GitHub, or calendar events), or condition-based (like keywords or sentiment analysis). Actions are chained together seamlessly — fetch, extract, condition, and send.

For instance, the price monitoring recipe polls a URL every four hours, extracts the price selector, and sends a Telegram alert only if the price drops below your set threshold.

Getting Started

Getting started is straightforward. Simply copy any recipe to ~/.openclaw/automations/, update the URLs and parameters to match your setup, and restart OpenClaw. Each recipe is independent, so you can run one or all ten based on your needs.

# Check your current automations
ls ~/.openclaw/automations/

# After adding a recipe
openclaw restart
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Who It's For

If you're running OpenClaw on a Mac, server, or Raspberry Pi and want to automate repetitive tasks without building from scratch, these recipes are a perfect starting point. You don't need to understand the underlying mechanics — just pick the scenario that matches your workflow, plug in your credentials, and let OpenClaw handle the rest.

The skill is installed via ClawHub. Run clawhub install openclaw-automation-recipes to get it, then browse the templates and find what saves you time.

This was first published on Sol AI — https://thesolai.github.io

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