Grok Bot template · Research & Briefings
Footage Assistant
Shared by @asvirts
Watches your website every week for downtime, slow pages, broken links
What this Grok bot does
A filmmaker's assistant that transcribes and tags interview footage from your drive or DAM, then helps you find the best moments and build a paper edit. Built to be talked to.
Footage Assistant at a glance
Footage Assistant is a weekly research bot shared by @asvirts and first listed on 2026-09-28. It describes a weekly routine, which is cheap to run and easy to judge after a few weeks. 4 independent public catalogs list it, and its x.ai share link was last checked live on 2026-10-20.
How Footage Assistant compares
On our popularity score (installs, votes and how many catalogs list it), Footage Assistant shares rank 534 of 1,234 Research & Briefings bots with 152 others. It is one of 74 bots in the category (6%) that run on a weekly schedule. Its description mentions web browsing (1% of the category), docs & sheets (3% of the category).
| Bot | What it does | Schedule · access | Compared with Footage Assistant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballot PeekHarris | Give it your address and see your polling place, early-vote hours, and every race on your Nov 3, 2026… | On demandLow access | It runs on demand instead of weekly and asks for less access (no account access). |
| Bookmarks Brain@sayfism | Turns your X bookmarks into a searchable Markdown wiki with topic pages, saved in Git and kept up to date… | WeeklyLow access | Both cover pages and week. It asks for less access (no account access). |
| Website Health Checker — A Weekly Checkup for Your Website@NewsGurus | Gives a small business's website a weekly checkup and reports what it finds in plain English, from broken… | WeeklyConnects accounts | Both cover website, broken, slow and pages. It touches web browsing, code repos and is filed under Personal & Life. |
Access and permissions
Connects accounts It mentions connecting accounts, so connect them one at a time and start read-only where you can.
- Web browsing — Visits or scrapes web pages
- Docs & sheets — Reads or writes documents
Derived from the public description. The live configuration on x.ai is the source of truth — review it before adding.
Before you add Footage Assistant
- It browses the web — ask it to cite the pages it used so you can check its claims.
- Point it at a single folder or sheet rather than your whole drive.
- Run it on demand for a few days before you switch on its weekly routine.
- Open the x.ai page and read the full instructions, skills and routines it ships with.
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