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Social Signal MCP Server

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Social Signal — post-VOLUME TIME SERIES across the open social networks that

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Social Signal — post-VOLUME TIME SERIES across the open social networks that

Remote endpoints: streamable-http: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/social-signal/mcp

Security Report

10.0
Low Risk10.0Low Risk

Valid MCP server (1 strong, 0 medium validity signals). No known CVEs in dependencies. Imported from the Official MCP Registry. Trust signals: trusted author (1291/1304 approved). 1 finding(s) downgraded by scanner intelligence.

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HTTP Network Access

Connects to external APIs or services over the internet.

How to Connect

Remote Plugin

No local installation needed. Your AI client connects to the remote endpoint directly.

Add this to your MCP configuration to connect:

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

Documentation

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From the project's GitHub README.

@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

  • Redditsearch.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 1394+ 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.

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License

MIT

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