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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 💌

Proxied fetch - Docs ↗ The Javascript Fetch API is directly available within a Val. However sometimes fetch calls are blocked by the receiving server for using particular IP addresses. Additionally, network blips or unreliable web services may lead to failures if not handled properly. The Val Town standard library contains an alternative version, std/fetch , that wraps the JavaScript Fetch API to provide additional functionality. The fetch function from std/fetch reroutes requests using a proxy vendor so that requests obtain different IP addresses. It also automatically retries failed requests several times. Note that using std/fetch will be significantly slower than directly calling the Javascript Fetch API due to extra network hops. Usage After importing std/fetch , the fetch method is used with the same signature as the Javascript Fetch API. import { fetch } from "https://esm.town/v/std/fetch"; let result = await fetch("https://api64.ipify.org?format=json"); let json = await result.json(); console.log(json.ip); If you run the above code multiple times, you'll see that it returns different IP addresses, because std/fetch uses proxies so that each request is made from a different IP address. 📝 Edit docs