Following sources

Follow the people and publications your audience reads, and Scripe watches them for you: their new posts and articles appear in Explore, and whatever fits your profile becomes a post idea in For you.

Sources matter to everyone who writes. A solo creator follows the voices in their field, a marketer follows competitors and analysts, an agency follows each client's market for that client's profiles. Agency clients do not see sources.

What you can follow

Scripe works out how to follow a pasted address. If it finds nothing it can follow, it says We couldn't find anything to subscribe to at this URL.

Sources are different from your knowledge base. A source is something you read to find topics; your knowledge base holds your own material, and synced sources (GitHub, Google Drive, Granola) keep documents there up to date.

What a source feeds

• Explore. A followed creator's posts and a followed publication's articles appear in Posts & Articles. Under the Relevance sort, followed creators are mixed in among the other posts. The Source filter shows only the sources you pick.
• For you. When a source publishes something that fits the profile, Scripe turns it into a post idea. There is no fixed schedule: ideas arrive whenever a source publishes something that fits, and a quiet source produces none.
• Ask Scripe. Ask Scripe can read the items of the sources you follow, so you can ask what a newsletter said this week or attach a source with Add to chat from its ··· menu.

Adding a source

1. Open Add source

   On Explore, press Add source. Choose From a URL to paste an address, or Search LinkedIn profiles to find a creator by name (type at least two letters).

2. Choose the profiles that follow it

   Under Profiles, select every profile this source is for. Scripe creates ideas for those profiles and lists the source on their Explore page. You need at least one.

3. Add it

   Press Add source. A source that is new to Scripe is fetched right away, so its latest items appear without waiting. A LinkedIn creator Scripe already knows is checked right away too when their posts there are more than three days old; see How current a creator's posts are.

The sources page also offers a catalog under All sources: publications Scripe suggests and LinkedIn creators from its post library. Open any of them and press Follow.

How current a creator's posts are

Scripe collects each creator's posts from LinkedIn and checks them again on a schedule that follows how often they post: a creator who posted in the last week is due for a check every day, one who has been quiet for longer is checked every few days, weekly, or monthly. When many creators are due at once, a check can run later than that.

• When you follow a creator whose posts in Scripe are more than three days old, Scripe checks LinkedIn for their newest posts right away. Their page shows Fetching and their name while it works, and updates by itself when the posts arrive.
• When you open any creator's page, followed or not, Scripe checks LinkedIn for their newest posts if nobody has checked them in the last 24 hours. Each creator is checked this way at most once a day, whoever opens the page.
• When Scripe's daily LinkedIn allowance is used up, the check waits. For a creator someone just followed it is queued, and those creators are checked first; their page says A check for new posts is queued meanwhile. For a creator nobody follows, the next visit tries again. Checks started by opening a page also have a small daily limit of their own, per profile and across Scripe; past it, the page shows the posts Scripe already has until the next day.
• On a creator's page, the line above the posts says when Scripe last checked LinkedIn for them, for example Posts last checked 3 days ago. If it says newer posts may be missing, the newest post shown is the newest one Scripe has, not necessarily their newest on LinkedIn.

A creator's page lists every post Scripe has collected from them. No topic or profile filter applies there, so an old newest post means Scripe has not collected anything newer yet, not that newer posts were filtered out.

The sources page

View all on the Sources row opens every source in scope.

• Followed sources lists what the profiles follow. All sources lists the catalog.
• The switch at the top shows All sources, only LinkedIn creators, only Feeds (newsletters, blogs, YouTube, websites), or Muted sources.
• Followed by narrows the list to the sources a profile follows; Industry narrows the catalog.

Click a source to open its page with all of its posts or articles, a search field, and Follow or Mute.

Muting and unfollowing

Each source's ··· menu offers:

• Mute source: the source stays in your list, but nothing new from it reaches your feed and Scripe stops scanning it for ideas. Find it again under Muted sources and choose Unmute source.
• Unfollow source: the source is removed for the profile.

Both show Undo for a moment afterwards. Ideas a source already produced and that you saved stay on your idea board.

Plans

Following sources is part of every paid plan (Solo, Advanced and Business). On the Free plan the sources page shows a preview and its controls are locked. See Plans.

Edge cases

• Several profiles. A source is followed per profile. On workspace Explore, Add source lets you choose all the profiles at once; the card then says Followed by and their names, or that the whole workspace follows it.
• The same source for two profiles. Scripe fetches it once and shows it to both.
• A creator who posts in another language. Their posts appear unless you set a Language filter on Explore.
• A company page. Explore for a company page alone shows articles from its followed feeds, not LinkedIn posts.

When it goes wrong

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