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NO. 04 · THE 5 STEPS

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Step 2: Check and select posts

Purpose

Remove posts that fail the project's rules. Select a small, attributed sample.

Before you start

Step 1 must have saved a raw file with a time window. Read crypto-layer-2-reference for topic boundaries.

Input

data/raw/YYYY-MM-DD.json. Steps 1 and 2 run in the same collector program.

Procedure

  1. Reject posts with no handle or no timestamp.
  2. Reject timestamps outside the saved 24-hour window.
  3. Apply the price, promotion, giveaway, rumor and government-DOGE filters.
  4. Reject accounts below 500 followers and posts below 5 likes.
  5. Reject disallowed coin tickers and promotion terms in the account bio.
  6. Rank surviving posts by the engagement score.
  7. Select up to three posts per coin, with one post per account.
  8. Remove repeated selected claim text within each coin.
  9. Trim extra posts to fit eight middle cards, including quiet cards.
  10. Save data/YYYY-MM-DD.json with the selected items and rejection counts.

The score is likes + 2 × reposts + 2 × quotes + replies. It is a selection rule, not a truth test. A guest-chain card needs three distinct authors and at least 25% of the surviving posts for that coin.

Check and output

Each selected item has a coin, topic, quoted excerpt, handle, post URL and timestamp. Check the topic and source links before approving a sample. Continue to 03-make-video.

If the step fails

Stop if the saved window or required source fields are absent. If no posts pass for a coin, use a quiet card. This means no sampled posts passed, not that no news exists. Keyword matching can select unrelated content. The historical Lightning Lake card demonstrates this limit.

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Phone widget · test feature

Put it on your phone

The widget is a small card on your Home Screen. It shows the Bitcoin price, the fee, and today's top news.

  1. Install the free Scriptable app. Open it one time.
  2. Tap Download script. The file goes to the Files app.
  3. In Files, move scriptable.js into iCloud Drive › Scriptable.
  4. Hold your Home Screen. Tap +. Choose Scriptable. Tap Add.
  5. Hold the new widget. Tap Edit Widget. Choose the script.
⬇️ Download script👀 View the code
🤖 Android: use any JSON widget app. Point it at https://not2l8-l2-daily.vercel.app/widget.json
Step 1 of 4

How to use it

  1. Press ▶ play. The video is 70 seconds.
  2. Read the cards under the video.
  3. Tap a card. The real post opens on X.
  4. Open 📚 Course to learn how it works.
Step 2 of 4

What it does

Every day at 6 PM, a robot reads X. X is a social media app.

The robot finds real posts about 4 coins: Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Monero and Litecoin.

Then it makes a 70-second video and a set of cards. Every card shows who posted and when.

If no sampled posts pass the filters, the card says "Quiet today." Other news may exist.

Step 3 of 4

The core

This is the automation. It runs by itself every day.

1⏰ At 6 PM, a timer on the Mac starts the robot.
2🔎 The robot collects posts from the last 24 hours.
3🧹 It removes ads, price guesses and copies.
4🎬 It makes the video and adds a voice.
5🌐 It puts the video online. Then it checks that the page loads.
Step 4 of 4

Phone widget

You can put a small card on your phone. It shows the Bitcoin price, the fee and today's top news.

It uses the free Scriptable app on iPhone. This is a test feature.