PulseLens

Spec sheet

Purpose

PulseLens is an open-source social-listening and public-opinion early-warning workbench for maintainers, researchers, small teams, and individual creators.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Integrations

Mastodon, Reddit exports, GitHub issues, YouTube comment exports, news APIs, Slack, Feishu, and DingTalk are listed as future roadmap items.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

PulseLens is released under the MIT License, which grants use of the software free of charge subject to its terms.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Dashboard

The local web dashboard shows recent mentions, trend summaries, alerts, entity-level risk, and a risk-prioritized triage queue.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Dashboard and reports

The local web dashboard shows mentions, trends, alerts, and entity-level risk, with CSV, JSON, and Markdown weekly-report outputs.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Data imports

The current version supports importing user-provided data from CSV files and public RSS feeds.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Data sources

The current version imports user-provided data from CSV files and public RSS feeds.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Exports

PulseLens provides a JSON endpoint, CSV export, and Markdown weekly reports.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

License and maturity

The project is MIT-licensed and its Python package classifies its development status as Alpha.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Limits

The current version does not aim to bypass platform restrictions, scrape private chats, automate public replies, contact posters automatically, or provide legal services.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Monitoring

It monitors mentions of people, brands, projects, or organizations, classifies sentiment, estimates reputational risk, and suggests responses.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Response suggestions

Suggested strategies include amplify, clarify, neutral-watch, de-escalate, and crisis-response.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Risk analysis

Risk scoring combines sentiment, reach, urgency, source weight, and keyword matches, with crisis levels from L0 to L5.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Risk categories

It classifies likely product, service, legal, security, privacy, or reputation risks and groups related mentions into topic clusters.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Roadmap

Mastodon, Reddit exports, GitHub issues, YouTube comment exports, and news APIs are listed as later planned connectors.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Security reporting

The security policy asks users to report security problems privately to project maintainers and include reproduction steps, affected version, and impact.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Sentiment

Its multilingual sentiment baseline includes English and Chinese lexicons for favorable, harmful, and urgent signals.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Sentiment analysis

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · github.com

Sentiment and risk

Its baseline sentiment lexicons cover English and Chinese, and its risk scoring combines sentiment, reach, urgency, source weight, and keyword matches.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Storage

The project describes its storage as privacy-first and says its SQLite database is stored on the user's machine.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Triage

PulseLens labels items from L0 to L5, classifies risk types, clusters topics, and suggests response strategies.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Web monitoring

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · github.com

Windows support

The README provides a bundled Windows helper script for running PulseLens without configuring PATH.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Where Specifiction places it

• Social Media Listening Software#79 of 867.0