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Automation

Social mention monitor reconstructed from its deployed bundle

Each day it checks Reddit, Bluesky and news feeds for mentions of an organization and saves the new ones.

built Oct 2026 The server in the closet

how it works

Cron Worker storing mentions in D1; the source was never committed, so the repo was rebuilt from the deployed bundle kept verbatim for diffing (Reddit app-only OAuth since unauthenticated JSON is 403).

Automation: Something that runs on a schedule by itself.

The code for this one lives in a private repo. This page explains the idea so you can build your own.

cronreverse-engineeringsocial-listeningsource-recovery

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