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Get Notified When Someone Posts an Article from Your Domain on Hacker News

86 points by coloneltcb 12y ago

eatonphil 12y ago
I am really not too familiar with Google Alerts, but doesn't Google Alerts encompass this?
- michaelbuckbee 12y ago
  Google alerts is pretty far from real-time and their coverage is spotty at best.
- nkozyra 12y ago
  I don't think it allows you to filter the source of the comment. Personally I can't fathom what role Twilio is serving in this mix. Just use the API.
  - chimeracoder 12y ago
    Even if Twilio were simply providing a proxy for accessing the Google Alerts API, I would use Twilio's proxy over Google's. Twilio consistently provides excellent documentation and developer support, whereas Google's results on that front are very mixed (varies widely by product).
    - aioprisan 12y ago
      That's a bit of a stretch. You wouldn't get better results than using Google's APIs, if anything you introduced another failure point and authentication credentials that you need to track and update regularly.
    - nkozyra 12y ago
      You don't need to use Google at all. This would be a 20-minute project using the HN API. Twilio is a whole extra level of cruft. Any machine can send an email, so unless you want a voice call to tell you someone mentioned you on HN it makes absolutely no sense.
      - EGreg 12y ago
        The new HN API? Which one do you mean? Please post the link.
Alan01252 12y ago
This reminded me of this http://hnalerts.com/ http://hnalerts.com/. I think it still works. Mind you it's been a long time since I've submitted anything that made it to the front page. ;)
- mintplant 12y ago
  Also see http://hnnotify.com/ http://hnnotify.com/, which shoots you an email when someone replies to one of your comments. It's been chugging a long for a number of years now and definitely still works.
  - juanuys 12y ago
    Heh, I use https://www.hnwatcher.com/ https://www.hnwatcher.com/
mikeknoop 12y ago
If you'd rather not have to code to make this happen: https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/675/post-message-slack-when-your-company-name-mentioned-hacker-news/ https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/675/post-message-slack-when-... (works for comment mentions, too)
- jpwagner 12y ago
  Similarly, has anyone used http://notify.ly/ http://notify.ly/ I can't tell if you can create custom hooks (similar to zapier's zaps) without signing up.
  - mikeknoop 12y ago
    Behind the scenes it's just using the Algolia API: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=zapier https://hn.algolia.com/?query=zapier
  - ah_saad1 12y ago
    Thanks for mentioning notify.ly, Simply, u can use notify with slack to get notifed if your name, domain, or any other topics get mentioned in key sites like HN posts and replies that how I found this reply ;) Also we recently introduced source settings by which you can tailor your notifications for example follow a certain product on PH and so on. We do support Twitter, tumbler, HN, PH, reddit and much more. It's 100% free cheers ^^
seagreen 12y ago
Pretty amazing that it's 2015 and we're still building custom code to make links go both ways. EDIT: Just realized that HN is going to be sensitive to this comment due to the "middlebrow criticism" issue. I have absolutely no problem with Twilio's blog post or this project. Hacky fixes have their place -- just know what you're doing and don't abandon hope of getting good infrastructure some day.
- barik 12y ago
  I agree. In 2000 or so when I first started blogging, pingbacks [1] (or its variation, trackbacks) seemed like it would take off as a popular mechanism for link notification. Unfortunately, for various reasons, it doesn't seem to have really taken off. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback
uberneo 12y ago
You can also get notified over mail not just for your links but also for something of your interest -- here is the ifttt recipe https://ifttt.com/recipes/280297-hackernews-to-mail https://ifttt.com/recipes/280297-hackernews-to-mail
- bemmu 12y ago
  This is based on the main page RSS, so you wouldn't get notified by an IFTTT recipe unless you got on the main page. Also IFTTT doesn't seem to support SMS outside US, so not sure how this could be done there.
Animats 12y ago
They mean "posts an article about your domain". It's a feed watcher, not a firewall.
bbcbasic 12y ago
If you like this sort of thing, it is worth looking a Yahoo Pipes. E.g. I created a pipe today to give me an RSS feed of HN submissions about Haskell.
- sraquo 12y ago
  I built http://hnapp.com http://hnapp.com specifically to generate custom RSS & JSON feeds for HN. It's opensource on github too. For example: http://hnapp.com/?q=haskell%20type%3Astory%20score%3E20 http://hnapp.com/?q=haskell%20type%3Astory%20score%3E20
  - bbcbasic 12y ago
    Thanks that is what I was really looking for. I will now use it.

86 points by coloneltcb 12y ago

eatonphil 12y ago

I am really not too familiar with Google Alerts, but doesn't Google Alerts encompass this?

michaelbuckbee 12y ago
Google alerts is pretty far from real-time and their coverage is spotty at best.
nkozyra 12y ago
I don't think it allows you to filter the source of the comment. Personally I can't fathom what role Twilio is serving in this mix. Just use the API.
- chimeracoder 12y ago
  Even if Twilio were simply providing a proxy for accessing the Google Alerts API, I would use Twilio's proxy over Google's. Twilio consistently provides excellent documentation and developer support, whereas Google's results on that front are very mixed (varies widely by product).
  - aioprisan 12y ago
    That's a bit of a stretch. You wouldn't get better results than using Google's APIs, if anything you introduced another failure point and authentication credentials that you need to track and update regularly.
  - nkozyra 12y ago
    You don't need to use Google at all. This would be a 20-minute project using the HN API. Twilio is a whole extra level of cruft. Any machine can send an email, so unless you want a voice call to tell you someone mentioned you on HN it makes absolutely no sense.
    - EGreg 12y ago
      The new HN API? Which one do you mean? Please post the link.

Alan01252 12y ago

This reminded me of this http://hnalerts.com/ http://hnalerts.com/. I think it still works. Mind you it's been a long time since I've submitted anything that made it to the front page. ;)

mintplant 12y ago
Also see http://hnnotify.com/ http://hnnotify.com/, which shoots you an email when someone replies to one of your comments. It's been chugging a long for a number of years now and definitely still works.
- juanuys 12y ago
  Heh, I use https://www.hnwatcher.com/ https://www.hnwatcher.com/

mikeknoop 12y ago

If you'd rather not have to code to make this happen: https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/675/post-message-slack-when-your-company-name-mentioned-hacker-news/ https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/675/post-message-slack-when-... (works for comment mentions, too)

jpwagner 12y ago
Similarly, has anyone used http://notify.ly/ http://notify.ly/ I can't tell if you can create custom hooks (similar to zapier's zaps) without signing up.
- mikeknoop 12y ago
  Behind the scenes it's just using the Algolia API: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=zapier https://hn.algolia.com/?query=zapier
- ah_saad1 12y ago
  Thanks for mentioning notify.ly, Simply, u can use notify with slack to get notifed if your name, domain, or any other topics get mentioned in key sites like HN posts and replies that how I found this reply ;) Also we recently introduced source settings by which you can tailor your notifications for example follow a certain product on PH and so on. We do support Twitter, tumbler, HN, PH, reddit and much more. It's 100% free cheers ^^

seagreen 12y ago

Pretty amazing that it's 2015 and we're still building custom code to make links go both ways. EDIT: Just realized that HN is going to be sensitive to this comment due to the "middlebrow criticism" issue. I have absolutely no problem with Twilio's blog post or this project. Hacky fixes have their place -- just know what you're doing and don't abandon hope of getting good infrastructure some day.

barik 12y ago
I agree. In 2000 or so when I first started blogging, pingbacks [1] (or its variation, trackbacks) seemed like it would take off as a popular mechanism for link notification. Unfortunately, for various reasons, it doesn't seem to have really taken off. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback

uberneo 12y ago

You can also get notified over mail not just for your links but also for something of your interest -- here is the ifttt recipe https://ifttt.com/recipes/280297-hackernews-to-mail https://ifttt.com/recipes/280297-hackernews-to-mail

bemmu 12y ago
This is based on the main page RSS, so you wouldn't get notified by an IFTTT recipe unless you got on the main page. Also IFTTT doesn't seem to support SMS outside US, so not sure how this could be done there.

Animats 12y ago

They mean "posts an article about your domain". It's a feed watcher, not a firewall.

bbcbasic 12y ago

If you like this sort of thing, it is worth looking a Yahoo Pipes. E.g. I created a pipe today to give me an RSS feed of HN submissions about Haskell.

sraquo 12y ago
I built http://hnapp.com http://hnapp.com specifically to generate custom RSS & JSON feeds for HN. It's opensource on github too. For example: http://hnapp.com/?q=haskell%20type%3Astory%20score%3E20 http://hnapp.com/?q=haskell%20type%3Astory%20score%3E20
- bbcbasic 12y ago
  Thanks that is what I was really looking for. I will now use it.