Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list... by bromquinn on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:31PM (#25163335)

This is slick! I could see using this for one of my own projects. How do you get the data? Are you using the official apis or are you 'scraping'?

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Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list... by fstopmick on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:36PM (#25163391)

Twitter results use their official API, otherwise I crackle sounds can't he- crackle what?.. call disconnected

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Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list... by riku_iki on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:59PM (#25163654)

Curious how scalable is this service? When services will start throttling/blocking your calls?..

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Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list... by fstopmick on Friday November 20, 2020 @02:06PM (#25163732)

Everything "legit" scales along with the cost of API access

Everything else scales along with the cost of outsourcing that risk to services located outside of the US (like serpapi.com) who implement lots of proxies and workarounds

I'm not sure if there will be margins, so if it scales, it'll have to be very cost-consciously

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