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PulseLens

Ch 816.2of 85Social Media Listening Software
  1. 1Runs onself-hosted, Web, Windows
  2. 2Web monitoringYes
  3. 3Sentiment analysisYes
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Overview

PulseLens is ranked #81 of 85 in social media listening software on Specifiction. It runs on Self-hosted, Web, Windows.

Compared on social media listening software

Web monitoring
Yesgithub.com
Sentiment analysis
Yesgithub.com

Facts

Purpose
PulseLens is an open-source social-listening and public-opinion early-warning workbench for maintainers, researchers, small teams, and individual creators.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Monitoring
It monitors mentions of people, brands, projects, or organizations, classifies sentiment, estimates reputational risk, and suggests responses.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Data sources
The current version imports user-provided data from CSV files and public RSS feeds.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Sentiment
Its multilingual sentiment baseline includes English and Chinese lexicons for favorable, harmful, and urgent signals.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Risk analysis
Risk scoring combines sentiment, reach, urgency, source weight, and keyword matches, with crisis levels from L0 to L5.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Risk categories
It classifies likely product, service, legal, security, privacy, or reputation risks and groups related mentions into topic clusters.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Response suggestions
Suggested strategies include amplify, clarify, neutral-watch, de-escalate, and crisis-response.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Dashboard
The local web dashboard shows recent mentions, trend summaries, alerts, entity-level risk, and a risk-prioritized triage queue.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Exports
PulseLens provides a JSON endpoint, CSV export, and Markdown weekly reports.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Storage
The project describes its storage as privacy-first and says its SQLite database is stored on the user's machine.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Integrations
Mastodon, Reddit exports, GitHub issues, YouTube comment exports, news APIs, Slack, Feishu, and DingTalk are listed as future roadmap items.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Limits
The current version does not aim to bypass platform restrictions, scrape private chats, automate public replies, contact posters automatically, or provide legal services.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
License and maturity
The project is MIT-licensed and its Python package classifies its development status as Alpha.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Windows support
The README provides a bundled Windows helper script for running PulseLens without configuring PATH.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Data imports
The current version supports importing user-provided data from CSV files and public RSS feeds.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Sentiment and risk
Its baseline sentiment lexicons cover English and Chinese, and its risk scoring combines sentiment, reach, urgency, source weight, and keyword matches.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Triage
PulseLens labels items from L0 to L5, classifies risk types, clusters topics, and suggests response strategies.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Dashboard and reports
The local web dashboard shows mentions, trends, alerts, and entity-level risk, with CSV, JSON, and Markdown weekly-report outputs.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
License
PulseLens is released under the MIT License, which grants use of the software free of charge subject to its terms.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Roadmap
Mastodon, Reddit exports, GitHub issues, YouTube comment exports, and news APIs are listed as later planned connectors.github.com · 12 Oct 2026
Security reporting
The security policy asks users to report security problems privately to project maintainers and include reproduction steps, affected version, and impact.github.com · 12 Oct 2026

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