Otter Fetch

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Fetch Otter.ai transcript data. Sub-skill used by cache-notes and fill-participants when Notes: contains an Otter URL.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Otter Fetch skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by benoror/obsidianos_work in .agents/skills/otter-fetch/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Single place for obtaining Otter.ai transcript data. No direct slash command — other skills invoke this when they encounter an Otter.ai URL (e.g. in Notes: frontmatter).

Usage

This skill has no slash command. It's a sub-skill: /cache-notes and /fill-participants invoke its workflow (and run parse_otter.js) when a meeting's Notes: contains an https://otter.ai/u/... URL.

When to use

  • cache-notes: When caching a meeting that has https://otter.ai/u/{otid} in Notes: — need callout markdown to embed.
  • fill-participants: When resolving participants for a meeting that only has Otter links (no Google Doc) — need speaker names from the transcript.

How to get the data

Otter has no public API. Use user-pasted JSON:

  1. Extract otid from the URL: https://otter.ai/u/aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsTotid = aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsT.
  2. Ask the user to copy the JSON response from GET https://otter.ai/forward/api/v1/speech?otid={otid} (e.g. from DevTools → Network while signed in, or from a signed-in request).
  3. User pastes the JSON; the agent (or script) parses it.

Outputs (same JSON, different consumers)

The pasted JSON has speech with:

Use caseWhat to useHow
cache-notesCallout markdownRun parse_otter.js with JSON on stdin → stdout is ## 🤖 AI Notes / ### Otter block with [!otter_notes]-, [!otter_todos]-, [!otter_transcript]-.
fill-participantsSpeaker namesFrom speech.speakers: array of { speaker_name }. Use those names with people-resolver to build Participants:.

So one paste can serve both skills if needed (e.g. cache-notes runs the script; fill-participants reads speech.speakers from the same JSON or from the cached transcript callout).

Script: parse_otter.js

In this folder: parse_otter.js reads the full Otter speech JSON from stdin and writes callout markdown to stdout (for cache-notes).

node .agents/skills/otter-fetch/parse_otter.js < pasted.json

Output is the exact block to append under ## 🤖 AI Notes (including ### Otter and the three callouts). Caller appends it to the note and sets NotesCached:.

Important notes

  • Always extract otid from the share URL (query params like ?utm_source=copy_url can be ignored).
  • If the user doesn't have the JSON, they can open the Otter meeting page while signed in, open DevTools → Network, reload, and copy the response body of the speech?otid=... request.

Signals

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github.com/benoror/obsidianos_work