Influencer Discovery
Influencer Discovery searches social platforms, blogs, newsletters, podcasts, and media sites for relevant creators.
Qualified profiles receive public contact enrichment and append directly to a Google Sheet.
Audience matters more than activity
A large list of active accounts does not make a useful outreach list.
Influencer Discovery looks for creators with an existing audience across followers, readers, or subscribers. Product builders seeking distribution are filtered out because outreach value depends on audience ownership.
| System | Output |
|---|---|
| Social search | Accounts mentioning a topic |
| Contact finder | Public email addresses and contact pages |
| Spreadsheet | Stored records |
| Influencer Discovery | Relevant creators with audience signals and public contact information |
How it works
The pipeline searches 15 channels, applies a topic gate and audience floors, pulls public contact info, and appends each contactable creator to your Sheet.
| Tier | Channels |
|---|---|
| 1 · Social | X/Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, YouTube, Reddit, Mastodon |
| 2 · Blog platforms | DEV.to, Hashnode, WordPress.com, Micro.blog |
| 3 · Personal sites | Self-hosted blogs, newsletters, podcasts |
| 5 · Media | freeCodeCamp News, HackerNoon |
Fetching is polite and read-only: explicit User-Agent, throttled, no anti-bot circumvention. Sheet writes are append-only, the dedup key is (person, platform), and contact data never enters the repo — real names, emails, and handles live only in the Sheet.
Get started
No third-party packages, no build step — the pipeline is pure standard library (Python ≥ 3.11):
git clone https://github.com/tigerless-labs/influencer-discovery && cd influencer-discovery
python3 skills/influencer-discovery/scripts/run.py --tiers 1 --per-channel 10--channels / --tiers select channels, --subject sets the topic gate, --min-followers / --min-karma set audience floors. Each run prints a report: planned vs actual, verdict distribution, and the contactable list.
Credentials go in ~/.config/influencer-discovery/.env, never in the repo. Some channels work with zero credentials; others need an API key or a logged-in session.
More in the works — built in the open, shipped fast.
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