Field notes
Practical notes on public-source monitoring, delivery, and the trade-offs behind a live feed. Written for desks and builders, not content calendars.
2026-08-25 · 1322 Team
A Python bot that watches tracked TikTok creators over WebSocket and posts Discord or Telegram alerts, editing the live card when the session ends instead of leaving it stale. Full code.
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TikTok's official APIs are scoped to creators who authorize your app, so none of them watch a public creator. What a creator feed has to carry, the event contract, and the code to consume it.
Read →2026-07-28 · 1322 Team
A source-linked roundup for crypto desks: X API v2, TweetStream, TwitterAPI.io, DIY scrapers and 1322 compared on latency method, cost, enrichment and platform coverage.
Read →2026-07-15 · 1322 Team
Every real way to pipe specific accounts' tweets into a Discord channel: DIY webhook scripts, Zapier-style automations, and a no-code included Discord bot that posts in a few hundred milliseconds.
Read →2026-07-15 · 1322 Team
Stories vanish in 24 hours and the Graph API can't watch arbitrary accounts. The real options for catching stories, reels and posts from a chosen account list as they publish.
Read →2026-07-28 · 1322 Team
A plain-English breakdown of X's current pay-per-use credits, $0.005 Post reads, billing deduplication, the monthly cap and when a managed feed fits better.
Read →2026-07-29 · 1322 Team
Get notified the moment @realDonaldTrump posts: free options, scrapers, and sub-second WebSocket feeds compared, with working Python code.
Read →2026-06-12 · 1322 Team
Meta's Graph API can't watch arbitrary public accounts. How real-time Instagram monitoring actually works in 2026, scraping, datasets, and managed WebSocket detection.
Read →2026-06-12 · 1322 Team
Binance Square has no public read API. How to track Square authors in real time with coin-pair extraction and WebSocket delivery, the lane Twitter trackers miss.
Read →2026-06-12 · 1322 Team
A Python bot that watches crypto KOL accounts on X in real time over WebSocket and fires Telegram alerts in under a second, with contract-address detection. Full code.
Read →2026-07-29 · 1322 Team
The official Truth API is a licensed institutional feed for top trending accounts. How monitoring any account actually works in 2026, scrapers, open-source tools, and managed real-time feeds compared.
Read →2026-07-28 · 1322 Team
The v1 Streaming API retired years ago; X API v2 now offers Filtered Stream with pay-per-use reads. Current official and managed options, with source-linked trade-offs.
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