Social Automation (No-Budget) — Current Setup

What is automated now

  1. Daily post pack generation (X/Facebook/Discord copy + links)
  2. One-click X draft opening via x.com/intent/tweet
  3. Website/news-aware copy pulls top headline from website-news/news.json
  4. Discord autopost attempt via webhook command from keychain

Files

  • Config: social_media/automation_config.json
  • Generator: scripts/social_autopilot.py
  • Queue output: social_media/queue/YYYY-MM-DD.json and .md
  • Open drafts helper: scripts/open_social_drafts.py

Run now

python3 scripts/social_autopilot.py
python3 scripts/open_social_drafts.py

Notes

  • X has no reliable official RSS/post API path here; intent URLs are the most stable no-budget path.
  • Facebook direct autopost requires API app permissions or stable browser automation session.
  • Discord webhook posting requires keychain secret discord-civicos-webhook to be valid.

Reddit automation (compliant near-autonomous)

Added:

  • Runner: scripts/reddit_autopilot.py
  • Config template: social_media/reddit_automation_config.example.json
  • Queue sample: social_media/queue/reddit_queue.sample.json
  • Pause state: social_media/queue/reddit_state.json
  • Logs: social_media/analytics/reddit_autopilot_*.json

Behavior:

  • Uses official Reddit OAuth + API endpoints.
  • Supports queued post and comment actions.
  • Enforces spacing (min_seconds_between_actions) to reduce anti-spam triggers.
  • Automatically pauses on auth/challenge-style errors (no CAPTCHA bypass attempts).

Setup:

  1. Create a Reddit app and collect client_id + client_secret.
  2. Obtain a refresh_token (one-time human auth).
  3. Copy template to active config: 
    cp social_media/reddit_automation_config.example.json social_media/reddit_automation_config.json
  4. Create active queue: 
    cp social_media/queue/reddit_queue.sample.json social_media/queue/reddit_queue.json

Run:

python3 scripts/reddit_autopilot.py --dry-run
python3 scripts/reddit_autopilot.py

If paused:

  • Check social_media/queue/reddit_state.json
  • Resolve required manual auth/verification on Reddit
  • Re-run the script (it auto-clears pause after successful run)

Next hardening (tomorrow)

  • Add scheduler hooks (hourly/daily)
  • Add retry/fallback + delivery log
  • Add Playwright posting flow for Facebook composer with persistent login profile
  • Add analytics UTM auto-tagging in generated links