@pipeworx/social-signal

How much a topic is being discussed across social networks, and how active an account is. Keyless.

Tools

• social_topic_volume(...) — post counts for a topic over time, bucketed, across Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit and Hacker News.
• social_account_activity(...) — posting cadence and engagement for one account on Bluesky or Mastodon.

Auth

None.

Coverage — a directional proxy, not total social volume

Covers Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit and Hacker News. X/Twitter is excluded — its API is paid — so results measure a partial slice of social media. Every tool description says this, because "social volume" that silently omits the largest network invites a wrong conclusion about a trend.

A network that cannot be reached returns null for its buckets rather than 0. That distinction matters: a measured zero and an unobserved gap are different facts, and Mastodon in particular is often unreachable from Cloudflare egress.

Per-network quirks handled in-pack

• Reddit — search.rss prepends subreddit entries (t5_ ids dated 2010) which faked a 16-year coverage floor; only t3_/t1_ ids are counted.
• Hacker News — Algolia caps pagination at 1,000 and returns nbHits: 0 past it, so the pack keeps the maximum nbHits seen rather than the last.
• Bluesky — burst-throttles at roughly 10 requests refilling ~1/s, so buckets are swept newest-first under a 12-request budget and any gap lands at the far edge of the window.

Data sources

• Bluesky: https://public.api.bsky.app
• Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/api/v2/search
• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/search.rss
• Hacker News: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "social-signal": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/social-signal/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway for access to all 1422+ data sources:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Social Signal data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

• All tools and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT