reddit-rss-submit

node.js (required)

#mac
brew install node

Other OS (windows, linux) should install from source found at http://nodejs.org

install

git clone git@github.com:chovy/reddit-rss-submit.git
cd reddit-rss-submit

#create cache
mkdir tmp
echo '{}' > tmp/seen.json

npm install

# add a cronjob to periodically check
crontab -e

# add this line (runs every hour on hh:05)
5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/node ~/path/to/reddit-rss-submit/index.js -u user -p pass --multi

# use flock to skip runs where script is already running (recommended - allows to run every 5 mins)
*/5 * * * * flock -n /tmp/reddit.lock -c "/usr/local/bin/node /path/to/reddit-rss-submit/index.js -u user -p pass"

configure

Only json is supported, best thing to convert RSS to JSON is to setup a Yahoo pipes over at http://pipes.yahoo.com You can can then grab the URL of your pipe's output as JSON.

cp config.sample.json config.json

Edit config.json to point to the URL of your feed (see yahoo pipes to convert to JSON)

options

• user: reddit uername (required)
• pass: reddit password (required)
• v: verbosity (-vvv to increase)
• t: throttle (number of minutes between link submissions, defaults to 10)
• m: multi (supports posting to multiple reddits)

LICENSE: MIT