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(almost) realtime unfollower detection for any social services 🦜⛓️🔒


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Cage

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(almost) realtime unfollower detection for any social services

Introduction

Cage is a cli application for detecting unfollowers on any social services. this application will check all of your followers using each watcher and compare them to the previous check. if there is a difference, it will notify you of the changes.

Usage

$ npm install -g cage-cli@dev

$ cage --help

Usage: cage [options]

(almost) realtime unfollower detection for any social services 🦜⛓️🔒

Options:
  -c, --config <path>    path to the configuration file (default: "./config.json")
  -d, --database <path>  path to the database file (default: "./data.sqlite")
  -p, --drop-database    delete the old database file
  -v, --verbose          enable verbose level logging
  -V, --version          output the version number
  -h, --help             display help for command

or you can just deploy with docker if you want:

$ docker run -d --name cage async3619/cage -v /path/to/config.json:/home/node/config.json

of course, you can also use docker-compose:

version: "3.9"

services:
    cage:
        image: async3619/cage
        volumes:
            - /path/to/config.json:/home/node/config.json

Watchers and Notifiers

Watchers

Watchers are independent feature that has the ability to watch to check users who follow your account per service.

Supported Watchers

Service Support?
Twitter
GitHub
Mastodon
Instagram
TikTok
YouTube
Twitch
Facebook
Reddit
Discord

Notifiers

When we detect unfollowers, new followers, or any other events, Cage will notify you via Notifiers.

Supported Notifiers

Service Support?
Discord Webhook
Telegram Bot
Slack Webhook
Email
SMS

Configuration

this application reads configuration file from ./cage.config.json by default. if there's no configuration file to read, this application will create you a default configuration file for you:

{
    "watchInterval": 60000,
    "watchers": {},
    "notifiers": {}
}

you can use json schema file config.schema.json on this repository.

watchInterval: number (required)

specify watching interval in millisecond format. minimal value is 60000.

watchers: Record<string, WatcherOptions> (required)

twitter

{
    "type": "twitter", // required
    "bearerToken": "bearer token of your twitter app" // string, required
}

github

watcher configuration for GitHub service.

{
    "type": "github", // required
    "authToken": "personal access token of your github account" // string, required
}

notifiers: Record<string, NotifierOptions> (required)

discord

notifier configuration for Discord Webhook notifier.

{
    "type": "discord",
    "webhookUrl": "Discord Webhook url" // string, required
}

telegram

notifier configuration for Telegram Bot notifier.

{
    "type": "telegram",
    "botToken": "token that generated from https://t.me/CageNotifierBot", // string, required
    "url": "custom notification relay server url" // string, optional
}

In most cases, you will not need url property since since Cage already provides hosted version of this server out of the box. but if you want to use custom notification relay server, take a look this repoitory.

slack

notifier configuration for Slack Webhook notifier.

{
    "type": "slack",
    "webhookUrl": "Slack Webhook url" // string, required
}