X Weekly Brief
An experiment to generate weekly summaries from an X account's activity. Archived after API costs increased and access was revoked pending developer onboarding changes.
PythonCronLLM summarisationAPIsMarkdown
Overview
X Weekly Brief was a cloud-native solution that automatically collects, analyses and summarises X content from a curated source list. The system produces a single, concise weekly digest that highlights significant current affairs, notable news, political trends and thematic developments.
What Happened
The project was archived for two reasons:
- API economics changed (the cost to do this reliably wasn't worth it)
- My access was revoked / blocked behind developer onboarding changes
Rather than duct-tape around shifting platform rules, I treated this as a learning project and moved on.
What I Built (Core Prototype)
- Fetch activity on a schedule
- Normalise raw items into a consistent format
- Produce a weekly digest in Markdown
- (Optional) run summarisation to extract themes + highlights
Lessons Learned
- Platform dependency is a product risk, not just a technical detail
- If the data source can disappear, design for graceful shutdown early
- A prototype is successful if it answers the question you asked—even if it doesn't ship
If Revisited
- Use sources with stable, well-documented API access
- Make the output pipeline source-agnostic (swap X for RSS/newsletters/feeds)
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