Which Platforms and Integrations Does F5Bot Support?

F5Bot monitors Reddit, Hacker News, and Lobsters at the same time, covering both posts and comments across every subreddit. Alerts can reach you by email, through Slack and Discord webhooks, or as RSS, JSON, or API feeds for your own tools. All three platforms are included in a single account, so you don't need separate setups per source.

Monitoring coverage

F5Bot checks these platforms every few minutes and emails you when a keyword appears in a new post or comment. The site states it has run since 2017 and delivers 430,000+ alerts daily.

Narrowing what triggers an alert

Monitoring all subreddits at once can produce noise, so F5Bot offers filtering on top of exact keyword matching:

• Subreddit filters — restrict alerts to specific communities.
• Excluded terms — suppress alerts containing words you don't want.
• Co-occurring keywords — require a second term to appear alongside the first.
• AI filtering — describe what you're looking for in natural language and let the system evaluate each new discussion, rather than matching only literal keywords.

These filters matter most on Reddit, where the same brand name can appear in unrelated contexts. For example, if you track a product called "Acme," requiring a co-occurring term like "pricing" or "deployment" keeps alerts focused on buying-intent discussions.

Delivery and integration options

Email

Email is the default channel. You can choose instant delivery, batched delivery on a delay, or a daily digest at a time you pick. Instant is best for time-sensitive engagement (replying to a complaint early); a digest suits low-volume tracking where you'd rather review mentions once a day.

Slack and Discord

Alerts can be routed into team channels via webhooks, so the right people see mentions without anyone checking an inbox. This is the usual choice for marketing or support teams that already work in chat.

RSS, JSON, and API

For existing workflows, F5Bot exposes alerts as RSS feeds, JSON feeds, or through programmatic API access. Use these when you want mentions to flow into a dashboard, a data pipeline, or a custom notification system rather than a chat app or inbox.

Choosing the right setup

• Solo developer or small project: email with instant or daily delivery, plus subreddit filters to cut noise.
• Marketing or PR team: Slack or Discord webhooks so mentions land where the team already communicates.
• Data or engineering use: RSS/JSON feeds or the API to integrate mentions into your own tooling.
• Broad brand tracking: AI filtering or co-occurring keywords to separate genuine discussion from passing references.

Getting started

Setup takes under a minute per the site: create a free account with just an email address (no credit card or payment information required), add your keywords, and alerts begin arriving by email. Integrations such as Slack, Discord, RSS, JSON, and API access are configured from within the account after signup. For current plan details and any limits on keywords or integrations, check the Pricing page, since the homepage does not specify them.