Gsc Candlestick Report — Data skill for Claude Code

GSC Candlestick SEO Report

A Claude Code skill that turns Google Search Console data into monthly candlestick charts. See keyword ranking direction AND volatility at a glance.

**v2 — direct API.** Calls the Search Console API directly, bypassing MCP. A 6-month pull of 30 keywords takes ~3 seconds and costs ~600 tokens (vs. ~190k tokens and 5+ minutes on v1). Same output, 100× faster.

  

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TL;DR for returning users

cd your-project-folder
# if you don't have keywords.yml yet:
cp ~/.claude/skills/gsc-candlestick-report/keywords.example.yml ./keywords.yml
# then in Claude Code:
/gsc-candlestick-report

Report lands in `./SEO_CandleStick/YYYY-MM-DD/candlestick-report.html`.

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Installing for the first time

Two ways: **let Claude walk you through it** (easier) or **follow the manual steps below** (faster if you're comfortable in a terminal).

Option A — Let Claude walk you through install

Open Claude Code and paste this prompt:

Read https://github.com/gareth-builds/gsc-candlestick-report/blob/main/README.md
and walk me through installing and running this skill from scratch.

Rules:
- Treat me as a fresh install. Verify each prerequisite, skip what I already have.
- For every browser action (Google Cloud Console, downloads), stop and wait for me
  to reply "done".
- Once credentials.json is saved, help me create my first keywords.yml.
- Run the skill and summarise the output.

Claude handles the rest. Total time: ~10 minutes.

Option B — Manual install

Three steps. All run on your machine. Nothing is pushed anywhere.

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Step 1 — Install the skill + Python dependencies

Copy-paste the whole block:

# Clone the skill into Claude Code's skills folder
git clone https://github.c