Automate YouTube Shorts with OpenClaw
YouTube is the only platform where the first line of what you write silently becomes the title of the video.
$ mcporter config add antwork --url https://api.antwork.io/mcp --auth oauthOpenClaw connects to Antwork over MCP with a browser OAuth prompt. There is no API key to generate, copy, or paste into a URL.
Connect it
- 01Approve in the browserThe command opens an OAuth consent screen. Approve it and the connection is live — the token refreshes itself, so publishing does not silently break weeks later.
- 02Connect the social accountAsk OpenClaw to connect your account and it renders a panel with a button per platform. Authorize once and Antwork holds and refreshes that token for you.
- 03Add the skill (optional)clawhub install iker-gonzalez/antwork teaches the agent the right tool order — pull context, draft, then schedule or publish as a second explicit step.
What you can say once YouTube Shorts is connected
“Write the description for this YouTube Shorts video, and make the first line work as the title.”
“Schedule this Short for Sunday morning and use my usual voice.”
“Rewrite the first line of my last YouTube Shorts post so it reads better as a title.”
“How many views did my last five Shorts get?”
You see it before it goes out
Antwork does not answer with a wall of text. It renders real, clickable panels inside OpenClaw — the same interface you would get in a dashboard, in the conversation you are already in. No other social tool does this.
- 01A post card with the draft, editable in place, with the publish and schedule buttons on it
- 02A month calendar of everything scheduled across every connected account
- 03Your media library as a thumbnail grid you can attach from
- 04A connections panel with a Connect button per platform
- 05A table of recent posts you can click into
Shipped something small this week that fixed a big thing. Our token refresh ran daily but checked YouTube Shorts against a five minute expiry window, so it could only ever catch a token that happened to die inside those five minutes. It never did. Accounts just went quiet.
What is different about YouTube Shorts
Only hereThe first hundred characters are the title
YouTube takes the opening 100 characters of the body as the video title. It is the only platform Antwork posts to that derives a second field out of your text, so the agent writes that first line to stand on its own.
Three minutes, and that is a hard stop
Shorts ends at three minutes, the shortest runtime ceiling of anything here. Past that it is not a Short, and Antwork will not pretend otherwise.
Vertical or nothing
9:16 is the only ratio accepted. A landscape or square cut is refused outright, which is the usual reason a video that posted to TikTok will not come here unchanged.
The file size is effectively unlimited
Up to 256 GB per video, roughly a thousand times what Instagram allows. Whatever came out of your editor goes up without a re-encode.
Questions
- Do I need an API key to connect OpenClaw?
- No. Antwork connects over OAuth — you approve a consent screen in the browser and you are done. There is no key to generate or paste into a URL, which is how most social MCP servers handle it.
- Do I need a paid account?
- No. Your first two connected accounts are free forever, with unlimited posts and workspaces, and there is no plan gate on MCP access.
- Will OpenClaw post without showing me first?
- Not unless you ask it to. Drafting and publishing are two separate steps: the agent writes, renders the post card, and only publishes when you confirm.
- Does the writing sound like AI?
- Antwork hands the agent that account's recent posts, along with how each performed, and the agent writes to match them. On YouTube Shorts that includes writing to the length the format rewards, up to 5,000 characters.
Never leave OpenClaw to post again.
One command, one consent screen, and YouTube Shorts is something you can just ask for.