Riocloud Reader

Universal content reader — fetch, transcribe, and digest content from 30+ platforms. Combines the best of x-reader and OpenClaw-DeepReeder.

Supported Platforms

Platform	Text Fetch	Video/Audio Transcript	API Key Required	Notes
🐦 Twitter/X	✅	—	❌	FxTwitter API + Nitter fallback
🟠 Reddit	✅	—	❌	Native .json API
🎬 YouTube	✅	✅	❌	transcripts in multiple languages
📰 WeChat (微信公众号)	✅	—	❌	Jina + Playwright fallback
📕 Xiaohongshu (小红书)	✅	—	❌	Playwright with session
📕 Bilibili (B站)	✅	✅	❌	Video metadata + subtitles
📡 RSS/Atom	✅	—	❌	feedparser
💬 Telegram	✅	—	✅	Telethon (requires API credentials)
🌐 Generic (any URL)	✅	—	❌	Trafilatura + Jina Reader
📓 NotebookLM	—	✅	✅	Google authentication

Platform Details

🐦 Twitter/X

• Regular tweets with engagement stats (likes, RTs, views, bookmarks)
• Long tweets (Twitter Blue)
• X Articles (long-form content)
• Quoted tweets (nested content)
• Reply threads (up to 5 via Nitter fallback)
• Profile snapshots

🟠 Reddit

• Self posts (full markdown body)
• Link posts (URL + metadata)
• Top comments (up to 15, sorted by score)
• Nested reply threads (up to 3 levels deep)
• Media URLs (images, galleries, videos)
• Post stats (score, comment count, upvote ratio)
• Flair tags

🎬 YouTube

• Video transcripts in multiple languages
• Metadata (title, description, channel)
• Support for youtube.com, youtu.be, youtube.com/embed

📰 WeChat (微信公众号)

• Articles from official accounts
• Jina Reader as primary fetcher
• Playwright fallback for anti-scraping pages

📕 Xiaohongshu (小红书)

• Notes and posts
• Images and media URLs
• Playwright with session for authenticated requests

📕 Bilibili (B站)

• Video metadata
• Subtitles
• Support for bilibili.com and b23.tv short links

📡 RSS/Atom

• Any standard RSS or Atom feed
• Auto-detection of feed URLs

💬 Telegram

• Channel messages
• Requires TG_API_ID and TG_API_HASH from my.telegram.org

🌐 Generic (Any URL)

• Any webpage via Trafilatura
• Jina Reader as fallback
• Best effort content extraction

📓 NotebookLM (Integration)

• Upload content as sources
• Generate Audio Overview (podcast-style)
• Requires Google authentication

Installation

Basic Install

pip install git+https://github.com/Riocloud/riocloud-reader.git

With All Dependencies

pip install "riocloud-reader[all] @ git+https://github.com/Riocloud/riocloud-reader.git"
playwright install chromium

Optional Dependencies

# Browser support (WeChat, Xiaohongshu)
pip install "riocloud-reader[browser]"

# YouTube transcripts
pip install "riocloud-reader[youtube]"

# Telegram support
pip install "riocloud-reader[telegram]"

# NotebookLM integration
pip install "riocloud-reader[notebooklm]"

# Generic URL parsing
pip install "riocloud-reader[generic]"

# Development
pip install "riocloud-reader[dev]"

Usage

CLI

# Single URL
riocloud-reader https://twitter.com/user/status/123456
riocloud-reader https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
riocloud-reader https://reddit.com/r/python/comments/abc123

# Multiple URLs
riocloud-reader https://url1.com https://url2.com

# Save to file
riocloud-reader https://example.com/article --output article.md

Python Library

import asyncio
from riocloud_reader import Reader

async def main():
    reader = Reader()
    
    # Single URL
    content = await reader.read("https://twitter.com/user/status/123456")
    print(content.title)
    print(content.content[:500])
    
    # Batch
    results = await reader.read_batch([
        "https://twitter.com/user/status/1",
        "https://reddit.com/r/python/comments/abc",
    ])

asyncio.run(main())

OpenClaw Skill

from skills.reader import run

# Read content directly into agent memory
result = run("Check out this: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/123456")

MCP Server

# Start MCP server
python -m riocloud_reader.mcp

# Configure in claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "riocloud-reader": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "riocloud_reader.mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Configuration

Environment Variables

Variable	Required	Description
TG_API_ID	Telegram only	From my.telegram.org
TG_API_HASH	Telegram only	From my.telegram.org
GROQ_API_KEY	Whisper only	Free from console.groq.com
FIRECRAWL_API_KEY	Optional	For paywalled content
DEEPREEDER_MEMORY_PATH	Optional	Where to save content

.env File

cp .env.example .env
# Edit with your credentials

Architecture

riocloud_reader/
├── parsers/
│   ├── base.py          # Base parser + ParseResult
│   ├── twitter.py       # Twitter/X (FxTwitter + Nitter)
│   ├── reddit.py        # Reddit (.json API)
│   ├── youtube.py       # YouTube transcripts
│   ├── wechat.py        # WeChat articles
│   ├── xhs.py           # Xiaohongshu
│   ├── bilibili.py      # Bilibili
│   ├── rss.py           # RSS/Atom
│   ├── telegram.py      # Telegram channels
│   └── generic.py       # Any URL (Trafilatura)
├── core/
│   ├── router.py        # URL → Parser routing
│   ├── storage.py       # File I/O
│   └── config.py        # Settings
├── skills/
│   └── reader/          # OpenClaw skill
├── integrations/
│   └── notebooklm.py   # NotebookLM API
├── mcp/
│   └── server.py        # MCP server
├── reader.py            # Main Reader class
└── schema.py           # Data models

Development

# Clone and install
git clone https://github.com/Riocloud/riocloud-reader.git
cd riocloud-reader
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Run tests
pytest

# Format code
black .
ruff check --fix .

License

MIT — Riocloud