Real-time X Post Monitoring & Auto-Categorization with Airtop

Monitor X for Relevant Posts Use Case This automation monitors X (formerly Twitter) search pages in real time and extracts high-signal posts that match your categories of interest. It’s ideal for community engagement, lead discovery, thought leadership tracking, or competitive analysis.

What This Automation Does Given a search URL and a list of categories, it: Logs into X using Airtop Opens the specified search URL Scrolls through the results Extracts up to 10 valid, English-language posts Filters and classifies each post by category (or marks as [NA] if unrelated) Returns the structured results as JSON

Input parameters: airtop_profile** — An Airtop browser profile authenticated on X x_url** — X search URL (e.g., https://x.com/search?q=ai agents&f=live) relevant_categories** — Text-based list of categories to classify posts (e.g., "Web automation use cases", "Thought leadership")

Output: A JSON array of posts, each with: writer time text url category

How It Works Trigger: This workflow is triggered by another workflow (e.g., a community engagement pipeline). Input Setup: Accepts the Airtop profile, search URL, and categories to use for classification. Session: Starts a browser session using the Airtop profile. Window Navigation: Opens the provided X search URL. Extraction: Scrapes up to 10 posts with /status/ in the URL and text in English. Classification: Each post is labeled with a category if relevant, or [NA] otherwise. Filtering: Discards [NA] posts. Output: Returns the list of classified posts.

Setup Requirements Airtop profile with an active X login. Airtop API key connected in n8n. List of category definitions to guide post classification (used in prompt).

Next Steps Feed into Engagement Workflows**: Pass the results to workflows that reply, retweet, or track posts. Use in Slack Alerts**: Push classified posts into Slack channels for review and reaction. Customize Classifier**: Refine the categorization logic to include sentiment or company mentions.

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