Station
A station in SignalPipe is a feed (RSS, Reddit, or Hacker News search URL) configured to listen for one specific product, with an optional keyword pre-filter that runs before the embedding call.
Each station is bound to exactly one product. Posts fetched from a station are pre-filtered against the station's keyword (cheap substring match), then the survivors are embedded against the product's anchor sentences.
Stations can be added live via POST /stations/add — no server restart needed. The scout cycle (driven by pg_cron every 2 hours) automatically picks up new stations on its next run. Each station fetches up to 50 entries per cycle.
For Reddit and Hacker News, the most reliable approach is the .rss feed exposed by both platforms. The feedparser client identifies as a polite bot to avoid 429 blocks.
Related terms
- Anchor sentence →Natural-language buying-intent example used to embed and match incoming posts in SignalPipe.
- Signal score →Final 0–100 score on a SignalPipe lead, after multi-factor scoring, competitor floor, and RL weight.
- Mission →A scored SignalPipe lead in the human-approval queue with a draft reply attached.
Cite as: https://signalpipe.io/glossary/station