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Building a Social Media Cross-Poster Bot with Web Scraping

Building a Social Media Cross-Poster Bot with Web Scraping

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Building a Social Media Cross-Poster Bot with Web Scraping Posting the same content across Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Mastodon manually is tedious. Let us build an automated cross-poster that adapts content for each platform. Architecture Content source : Your blog RSS feed, a Google Sheet, or manual input Adapter layer : Reformats content per platform (character limits, hashtags, mentions) Poster layer : API clients for each platform Scheduler : Optimal posting times per platform Setup pip install requests beautifulsoup4 feedparser tweepy atproto schedule Content Source: RSS Feed Scraper import feedparser import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from datetime import datetime class ContentSource : def __init__ ( self ): self . session = requests . Session () def from_rss ( self , feed_url , limit = 5 ): feed = feedparser . parse ( feed_url ) posts = [] for entry in feed . entries [: limit ]: content = entry . get ( " summary " , entry . get ( " description " , "" )) soup =

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