AI Social Media Curator: Hacker News GitHub Gems to X & LinkedIn

Unlock Automated Tech Content Curation with this AI Agent

Stop spending hours manually finding and sharing relevant tech content. This AI Agent acts as your automated social media assistant, specifically designed to keep your X (Twitter) and LinkedIn profiles buzzing with the latest interesting GitHub projects discussed on Hacker News. It intelligently crawls Hacker News, extracts key information about GitHub repositories, leverages OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini to craft compelling social media posts, and then publishes them for you. This agent is perfect for solopreneurs, founders, and marketing teams looking to establish thought leadership and engage their tech-savvy audience with minimal effort.

Key Features & Benefits:

• Automated Content Discovery: Regularly scans Hacker News for popular GitHub projects, so you're always sharing what's trending.
• Intelligent Data Extraction: Uses Python and BeautifulSoup to accurately parse and retrieve project titles, URLs, and other metadata from Hacker News and GitHub pages.
• AI-Powered Post Generation: Employs OpenAI (GPT-4o-mini) to write unique, engaging, and contextually relevant posts for both X (Twitter) and LinkedIn, tailored to each platform's style. This is its core 'social media content generation' ability.
• Multi-Platform Publishing: Seamlessly posts generated content to your X and LinkedIn accounts.
• Content Tracking & Deduplication: Integrates with Airtable to log all shared posts and prevent duplicates, ensuring fresh content.
• Review & Control: Sends Telegram notifications with drafted posts, allowing for a quick review before automatic publishing (with a 5-minute delay).
• Scheduled Operation: Runs automatically on a schedule (e.g., every 6 hours), ensuring consistent social media activity.

• An n8n instance (Cloud or self-hosted).
• OpenAI API Key with access to a suitable model (e.g., gpt-4o-mini recommended).
• Airtable account and a Personal Access Token (PAT) or API Key.
• An Airtable Base and Table pre-configured with fields like Post (Text), Title (Text), Url (URL), Tweet (Long Text), LinkedIn (Long Text), TDone (Checkbox), LDone (Checkbox).
• X (Twitter) Developer account with App credentials (API Key & Secret, Access Token & Secret) for posting.
• LinkedIn account credentials authorized in n8n for posting.
• Telegram Bot Token and your Chat ID for receiving notifications.

1. Download the n8n workflow JSON file.
2. Import the workflow into your n8n instance.
3. Configure the 'Schedule Trigger' node to set your desired posting frequency (default is every 6 hours).
4. Update Airtable Nodes ('Search Item', 'Create Item', 'Update X Status', 'Update L Status'):
   • Select or create your Airtable credentials.
   • Enter your Airtable Base ID and Table Name.
   • Ensure field names in the nodes match your Airtable setup.
5. Configure the 'Generate Content' (OpenAI) node:
   • Select or create your OpenAI credentials using your API Key.
   • Confirm the gpt-4o-mini model is selected or choose a preferred alternative.
6. Configure the 'X' (Twitter) node:
   • Select or create your Twitter credentials.
7. Configure the 'LinkedIn' node:
   • Select or create your LinkedIn credentials.
8. Configure the 'Ping Me' (Telegram) node:
   • Select or create your Telegram credentials using your Bot Token.
   • Enter your Chat ID in the parameters to receive notifications.
9. Review the Python code in 'Extract Meta' node. While generally robust, Hacker News HTML structure changes could require minor adjustments.
10. Activate the workflow. Monitor the first few runs to ensure posts are generated and published as expected.