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A comment on Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list... by amelius on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:29PM (#25163318)
And I guess it's also like youtube-dl in the sense that it needs to continuously fight updates and/or banning from the sites it wants to download from.
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Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list... by fstopmick on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:54PM (#25163596)
yeah, it's not as fixed-cost as I'd hoped
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Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list... by amelius on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:00PM (#25164877)
Have you considered open-sourcing the libraries that fetch content from these platforms? You could build an entire community that helps you maintain the code ...
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Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list... by fstopmick on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:30PM (#25165226)
I haven't, mostly because I'm scared of the liability. My code is pretty sketchy for everything but Twitter, and for that I use LinqToTwitter (.NET) which is already OSS (and amazing).
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