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Slack scout sends a slack notification every time your keywords are mentioned on Twitter, Hacker News, or Reddit. Get notified whenever you, your company, or topics of interest are mentioned online.

Built with Browserbase. Inspired by f5bot.com.

Full code tutorial.

Getting Started

To run Slack Scout, you’ll need a

  • Browserbase API key
  • Slack Webhook URL: setup here
  • Twitter Developer API key

Browserbase

Browserbase is a developer platform to run, manage, and monitor headless browsers at scale. We’ll use Browserbase to navigate to, and scrape our different news sources. We’ll also use Browserbase’s Proxies to ensure we simulate authentic user interactions across multiple browser sessions.

Get started with Browserbase for free here.

Twitter

We’ve decided to use the Twitter API to include Twitter post results. It costs $100 / month to have a Basic Twitter Developer account. If you decide to use Browserbase, we can lend our token. Comment below for access.

Once you have the SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL, BROWSERBASE_API_KEY, and TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN, input all of these as Val Town Environment Variables.

Project created by Sarah Chieng and Alex Phan 💌

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