Buffer Feedling
Post more. Feed the blob.
Buffer Feedling is a browser extension with a tiny pixel pet called Sproutling. It lives in the corner of your Buffer app and gets fed by what you publish.
Sproutling is content.
How it works
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Connect Buffer
Sign in once with Buffer's own OAuth screen. The extension asks to read your account, posts and ideas, and nothing else.
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Sproutling checks in
Every 15 minutes it looks at your posting goals, what you've sent, what's scheduled, and any new drafts or ideas.
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Its mood follows your habit
Hit your goals and it's full. Let the queue run dry and it gets hungry. Scheduled posts keep it calm, because food is on the way.
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It tags along
It sits in the corner of the Buffer app, and visits the sites of the channels you've connected once you say it can.
Five moods
It never dies. The worst that happens is a nap.
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Hungry
You've been around, but you're behind on your goals. A post would help.
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Content
Partway to your goals, or posts are scheduled. Nothing to worry about.
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Full
Goals hit. Drafts take the edge off a little, but they don't count as dinner.
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Sleepy
Three quiet days. It wakes up the moment you do something.
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Eating
A new post, draft or idea just showed up. Lasts a few seconds.
What it can see
- Read-only access:
account:read,posts:read,ideas:read. - No server of ours. The extension talks to Buffer's API directly from your browser.
- Your tokens are kept in the extension's background worker, never in the pages it visits. The sign-in page on this site only passes them along once.
- It never posts, edits or deletes anything.
Install
The Chrome Web Store listing is on its way. Until then, you can run it from source in about a minute.
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Clone the repo and build it:
git clone https://github.com/andreasvirkus/buffer-feedling cd buffer-feedling corepack enable && pnpm install && pnpm build -
Open
chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode, choose Load unpacked and pick.output/chrome-mv3. Click the Feedling icon in the toolbar and connect Buffer.