Crypto Pulse — Crypto AI RSS Social Automation

MVP for monitoring crypto/AI RSS feeds, scoring relevance, generating platform-specific social content with AI, and publishing via Make.com, Buffer/Publer, and Telegram.

Features

• News source management — 14 pre-seeded RSS feeds, custom sources, keywords, priority
• RSS ingestion — Internal cron fetcher + Make.com webhook (POST /api/webhooks/rss-item)
• Keyword detection & relevance scoring — Auto-queue high-score items
• Deduplication — URL exact match + title similarity (24h window)
• AI content generation — X, Telegram, Instagram, TikTok/Shorts scripts + image prompts
• Risk/safety review — Low/medium/high classification
• Content queue — Approval workflow + per-platform rate limits (X/TG per hour, IG per day, video every N days)
• Configurable scheduling UI — Settings page with helper text for each platform
• YouTube Shorts — Separate generated post per RSS item (alongside TikTok)
• Crypto AI niche mode — Auto-queue only AI-related stories when enabled
• Image generation — Optional OpenAI DALL·E (IMAGE_GENERATION_ENABLED=true)
• Video generation — Slideshow + OpenAI TTS voiceover via ffmpeg for TikTok / Instagram / Shorts (VIDEO_GENERATION_ENABLED=true)
• Headless approve — POST /api/queue/approve/:postId for Make/cron
• Dashboard — Sources, inbox, generated content, queue, settings, logs

Quick start

1. Prerequisites

• Node.js 20+
• Docker (for local Postgres)

2. Setup

cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d
npm install
npm run db:push
npm run db:seed
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3009/dashboard.

3. Environment

See .env.example. Minimum for local UI:

DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/crypto_rss_social?schema=public"
MAKE_RSS_WEBHOOK_SECRET=dev-secret
MAKE_PUBLISH_WEBHOOK_SECRET=dev-publish-secret

Add OPENAI_API_KEY for real AI generation (otherwise mock content is used).

API endpoints (Make.com)

Method	Endpoint	Auth header
POST	/api/webhooks/rss-item	x-make-webhook-secret: MAKE_RSS_WEBHOOK_SECRET
GET	/api/queue/next-post?platform=x	MAKE_PUBLISH_WEBHOOK_SECRET
POST	/api/queue/mark-posted	same
POST	/api/queue/mark-failed	same
POST	/api/ai/generate-from-rss/:rssItemId	—
POST	/api/ai/generate-video/:postId	MAKE_PUBLISH_WEBHOOK_SECRET
POST	/api/webhooks/platform-response	MAKE_PUBLISH_WEBHOOK_SECRET

Internal RSS fetch (cron):

curl -H "x-cron-secret: $CRON_SECRET" http://localhost:3009/api/cron/fetch-rss

Docs

• Architecture
• Make.com setup
• RSS sources
• AI prompts
• Database
• VPS deployment (cron RSS fetch, PM2, Nginx)
• Video generation (TikTok / IG / Shorts via DALL·E + TTS + ffmpeg)

Scripts

Command	Description
npm run dev	Start dev server
npm run build	Production build
npm test	Run Vitest suite
npm run db:seed	Seed RSS sources + defaults
npm run db:push	Push schema to DB

Brand

Default brand Crypto Pulse — original crypto-native voice. Not affiliated with any influencer.