Social listening with Octolens
Octolens is a social listening tool for tracking mentions of your company across Twitter/X, LinkedIn, GitHub, Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, YouTube, TikTok, and other social platforms.
With Octolens webhooks and Val Town, you can act on new mentions however you'd like: add to your CRM, send to Discord, create a testimonials wall, enrich customer leads via RB2B, etc.
Setup
- Sign up for an account on octolens.com and add keywords to track
- Create a val to receive keyword mentions (or remix one)
- Add the val's HTTP endpoint as your Octolens alert webhook URL
To verify that requests to your val are actual webhooks from Octolens, you can
append a URL query parameter, ?secret=your_secret_here, in your Octolens
configuration that you check in your val handler. See also
Octolens' docs
on sending webhooks to Val Town.
Example
We use an octolens val to forward "val.town" mentions to our Discord server.