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Mention Monitor: Hacker News, Mastodon, Bluesky, YouTube

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Watch keywords on Hacker News, hashtags and accounts on Mastodon, accounts on Bluesky, and YouTube channels; get only the new public posts since your last run as normalized rows with author, text, link, time, and engagement. Official public APIs and feeds, no keys. From $1.20 per 1,000.

Pricing

from $0.60 / 1,000 mentions

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Upward Enterprises

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

9 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Social media

Automation

Marketing

What to watch

watches

Required

One watch per line. Hacker News keyword: hn:apify (stories and comments containing the word or phrase). Mastodon hashtag: mastodon:#opensource or mastodon:#opensource@fosstodon.org (default instance mastodon.social). Mastodon account: mastodon:@thunderbird@mastodon.online. Bluesky account: bluesky:@bsky.app. YouTube channel: youtube:UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw or the channel URL.

Type:array

Keywords (accounts, hashtags and channels)

keywords

Optional

Optional. For hashtag, account and channel watches, deliver only posts whose text or title contains any of these words or phrases, case-insensitive. Hacker News watches already carry their own keyword. Empty means every new post.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Include replies and boosts

includeReplies

Optional

Off (default): original posts only for account watches (Hacker News comments always count as mentions). On: also replies and reposts/boosts.

Type:boolean

Default:false

First-run look-back (hours)

lookbackHours

Optional

On the first check of a watch, how far back to deliver. Later checks deliver everything since the previous check. Default 24.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:720

Default:24

Snapshot name

snapshotName

Optional

Which memory this monitor uses. Kept on your account as a key-value store named public-mention-monitor-. Give each schedule its own name.

Type:string

Default:default

Max mentions per run

maxItems

Optional

Upper limit on delivered mention rows. Watches whose posts did not fit are re-checked from the same point next run.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:20000

Default:1000

Proxy (optional)

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Normally not needed: these are official public APIs and feeds. Turn a proxy on only if the summary row reports rate limiting.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": false
}

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