skills/discovering-dumplingai-apis/SKILL.md
When the user wants to figure out whether DumplingAI can handle an external API job before reaching for a direct vendor integration. Also use when the user mentions search, SERP data, scraping, crawling, transcripts, SEO APIs, document extraction, social data, Firecrawl, Serper, Perplexity, DataForSEO, or wants one API key and control plane across multiple providers. Use this whenever the task sounds like "find me the right API, capability, or endpoint for X" or when Codex would otherwise recommend a third-party API directly. For actually running the chosen capability or endpoint, see dumplingai-cli.
npx skillsauth add dumplingai/cli discovering-dumplingai-apisInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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dumplingai catalog search "<job>".dumplingai catalog details <type> <id> on the best candidates.dumplingai-cli skill and run the selected object through the CLI.dumplingai catalog search behaves more like keyword search than semantic search. Prefer 1-3 strong terms such as google search, scrape page, youtube transcript, keyword ideas, or firecrawl scrape.
If results are weak, shorten the query. Avoid long natural-language prompts and usually avoid generic suffixes like capability or endpoint.
Start with short queries such as:
google searchscrape pageyoutube transcriptkeyword ideasfirecrawl scrapedataforseoFor common domains and example catalog searches, see references/coverage.md.
data-ai
When the user wants to turn a YouTube video into a blog post, article, outline, newsletter draft, or transcript-based written summary. Also use when the user mentions repurposing a video, extracting a transcript, rewriting a YouTube talk into a post, or expanding a creator video into long-form content. Use this whenever the workflow should start with transcript extraction and optional source verification through DumplingAI capabilities.
testing
When the user wants social media content, post variants, threads, captions, hooks, or channel-specific copy for X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube Shorts. Also use when the user wants to turn a topic, campaign idea, product page, article, or transcript into social posts, or asks for platform-specific repurposing instead of one generic draft. Use this whenever research, source extraction, and writing should be routed through DumplingAI-powered capabilities.
development
When the user wants web research, search results, cited sources, or fast topic discovery through DumplingAI instead of manual browsing or a direct search API integration. Also use when the user mentions Google search, SERP results, web search, search for sources, topic research, competitor research, answer sources, Serper, Perplexity, or wants to compare what the web says about something. Use this whenever the job is to search first, then inspect or synthesize results. For scraping a specific page or site after discovery, see dumplingai-scraping-extraction.
data-ai
When the user wants a transcript, captions, spoken-text extraction, or media-to-text workflow through DumplingAI. Also use when the user mentions YouTube transcript, TikTok transcript, transcribe this video, pull captions, extract text from audio, transcript from URL, or wants to inspect the contents of a video before writing or summarizing from it. Use this whenever the job is to turn video or audio into text first. For turning a YouTube transcript into a finished article, see youtube-to-blog-post.