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Social Media AI Agent - Telegram

This workflow automatically crawls GitHub project links on Hacker News, uses AI to generate personalized social media copy, and facilitates automatic posting to Twitter and LinkedIn. Additionally, it supports sending reminders via Telegram to content creators for manual confirmation, ensuring content quality. This process reduces the tediousness of manually searching and filtering information, enhances the efficiency of social media operations, and helps tech teams and personal brands quickly promote new projects while optimizing content management and publishing rhythm.

Workflow Diagram
Social Media AI Agent - Telegram Workflow diagram

Workflow Name

Social Media AI Agent - Telegram

Key Features and Highlights

This workflow automatically crawls GitHub project links from the Hacker News homepage, deeply extracts the corresponding GitHub page content, and leverages AI (OpenAI GPT model) to intelligently generate personalized social media posts tailored for Twitter and LinkedIn. It then automatically publishes the posts and synchronizes updates to an Airtable database. Additionally, it supports Telegram notifications to alert content creators, ensuring manual confirmation before publishing and enabling delayed posting mechanisms to maintain content quality and publishing cadence.

Core Problems Addressed

  • Automates the discovery of the latest technology and open-source project updates, eliminating the tedious manual search and filtering process.
  • Utilizes AI to generate high-quality content that aligns with the style of different social media platforms, enhancing social media operation efficiency.
  • Prevents duplicate posting to ensure content uniqueness and timeliness.
  • Optimizes team collaboration and content management workflows through multi-platform synchronization and timely notifications.

Use Cases

  • Technology community managers and content operators regularly sharing tech news and open-source project highlights.
  • Social media teams automatically generating and publishing tech-related content, saving time on copywriting.
  • Developers and tech evangelists promoting new projects and tools on GitHub.
  • Enterprises or personal brands aiming to boost their influence and visibility on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Main Workflow Steps

  1. Scheduled Trigger: Automatically initiates the crawling process every 6 hours.
  2. Crawl Hacker News Homepage: Extract posts containing GitHub links.
  3. Extract and Filter GitHub Post Metadata: Including title, link, author, score, etc.
  4. Duplicate Filtering: Query Airtable to filter out already published content.
  5. Access GitHub Project Pages: Retrieve detailed project descriptions.
  6. Convert HTML to Markdown: Facilitate AI content generation.
  7. AI Content Generation (OpenAI GPT-4o-mini): Produce social media copy tailored for Twitter and LinkedIn styles.
  8. Content Validation and Filtering: Ensure the generated content is correctly formatted.
  9. Save to Airtable Database: Record the status of tweets and LinkedIn posts.
  10. Telegram Notification to Content Owner: Send pending posts for confirmation.
  11. Wait 5 Minutes: Allow manual intervention and edits.
  12. Automatic Publishing to X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.
  13. Update Publishing Status in Airtable, completing the workflow loop.

Involved Systems and Services

  • Hacker News: Information source for crawling tech discussions and GitHub project links.
  • GitHub: Source for detailed project content.
  • OpenAI GPT-4o-mini: AI engine for generating social media copy.
  • Airtable: Database for managing content status and history.
  • Twitter (now X) and LinkedIn: Platforms for automatic social media publishing.
  • Telegram: Notification service to assist manual confirmation.
  • n8n: Workflow automation platform orchestrating all steps.

Target Users and Value Proposition

  • Technical content operators and social media managers seeking to improve content planning and publishing efficiency.
  • Open-source project promoters aiming to rapidly expand project reach.
  • Corporate brands and technical teams maintaining active social media presence and professional image.
  • Any users who want to automate the generation and synchronized publishing of tech-related social content, saving time while ensuring content quality.

This workflow combines intelligent information gathering and content generation to create an efficient, reliable, and user-friendly social media automation assistant, significantly lowering the barrier to content production and empowering users to effectively disseminate technological innovation in the digital era.