discovering that the overnight spike in keyword alerts for your company name from the reputation monitoring bot was actually because someone in the furry community who has apparently adopted the same name has upset a bunch of other folks in the furry community somehow is certainly a way to start a tuesday
@SecureOwl What tools do you use for keyword alerts btw?
@mauve its a custom built bot i wrote a while ago that uses various apis for different social media providers etc
@SecureOwl That's cool! Is the code published somewhere I could read? I'd be interested in setting one up too.
@SecureOwl Snap! That's a lot cleaner/more simple than I expected. I assume you extracted the auth tokens from user sessions?
@mauve i signed up as a developer and registered an app at each place/used a google api key
i honestly dont know if you can still sign up as a dev on twitter without giving commander shit for brains musk a billion dollars these days, i had an api key/app that is about 10 years old and still works somehow
@SecureOwl Yeahhhhhh. TBH undocumented user-focused APIs have been my go to. I just inspect what a web app is tying to do and strip it down. Works most of the time until they change something. :P
@mauve here you go i just put it here:
https://github.com/msheward287/social-monitor-bot/tree/main
Very basic but it does the job reasonably well, you just feed it API keys for Twitter/Reddit/Google (the services I monitor with it) and then I also have it post alerts to a slack channel via webhook.
Set the keywords in the keywords array, cron run it every 15 mins.