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    "title": "YouTube Channel Scraper & Upload Monitor (videos, views)",
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            "description": "Keywords to search YouTube for, one per line, e.g. \"rocket launch 2026\", \"python tutorial\". The first page of results (about 20 videos) is returned for each query.",
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            "title": "Telegram bot token",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Optional Telegram bot token used to send monitor-mode change summaries, e.g. \"123456789:AAE...\". Leave empty to skip Telegram alerts."
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            "title": "Telegram chat id",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Optional Telegram chat id that receives the monitor-mode summaries, e.g. \"-1001234567890\" for a channel or \"123456789\" for a direct chat."
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