How to use Grok Bot to extract and sort 13,425 art prompts
Julie McZ had Grok Bot extract the art prompts from all her projects. Over about 30 hours, after two timeouts, it sorted 13,425 prompts by subject into a searchable collection.
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Go through every project in [workspace] and extract all my image prompts. Work in small batches, sort them by subject, remove exact duplicates and compile one searchable file with the source project for each.
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- Julie McZ (@JulieZMcCann)
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- Reported result
- Julie reports 13,425 prompts sorted by subject and searchable after about 30 hours of work.
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- Julie monitored the job, updated the bot's computer when needed and reviewed the finished collection.
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How the agent did it
- She asked Grok Bot to go through all her projects and extract her art prompts.
- She updated the bot's computer once, about a third of the way in.
- After two timeouts the bot switched to smaller blocks of data.
@JulieZMcCann, who posts as Julie McZ, wrote that she had just finished going through all of her projects with Grok Bot to extract every art prompt she had written.
The end result, she says, is 13,425 prompts, sorted by subject, compiled and searchable. The job took about 30 hours.
She is candid that it did not run perfectly. She had to update the bot's computer once, about a third of the way through, and the work timed out twice. After that, she says, the bot decided on its own to work in smaller, more manageable blocks of data within the projects, and it had no more problems.
That adjustment is the practical lesson. Very large extraction jobs can fail on timeouts, and breaking the data into smaller batches got this one finished.
She says she now plans to revisit some older prompts and start another project with Grok Bot. She does not describe the format of the final collection beyond being sorted by subject and searchable.
Who it's for: Artists and prompt writers with years of prompts scattered across old projects.
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Source: X · Julie McZ (@JulieZMcCann)
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How long did the extraction take?
About 30 hours, according to Julie, including one computer update and two timeouts.
How did the bot get past the timeouts?
She says it decided to work in smaller blocks of data within the projects, and had no more issues after that.
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Remaining steps
- It sorted the prompts by subject and compiled them into a searchable set.
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Grok Bot extracted, sorted and compiled the prompts over many hours and changed its own batching after timeouts.
Platform: X. Attribution: https://x.com/JulieZMcCann/status/2091142158283632826. Read the original post text, author and publication date through the X API on 2026-10-19. Found via the grokbot.dev use-cases page; every fact here comes from the original post, not grokbot.dev's summary. Prompt: Suggested (written by Agents In Use, not the author's).
Credit: Julie McZ (@JulieZMcCann) — X
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Art prompts · Archiving · Data extraction
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