A bot for the social platform wasteof.money that posts the latest entry in an RSS feed.
use your favorite package manager to install the dependencies.
npm i
yarn
copy .env.example to .env and add your bot username & password. we'll get the token next.
there's probably a way to do this within the main script, but i made a secondary one. run node token.js and it should return a token. copy this token into .env.
after the setup, simply run yarn run start or npm run start to make a post. i recommend setting up a cron job/crontab for a certain time, do not use something like pm2. i did not configure it to post like that.
anyways there's probably a better way to do this but i'm too stupid and half of this code is from stack overflow. i'll be honest.
god i hope my comments were helpful, this code sucks
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thank you wuilly for the incredible wasteof.money api documentation
thank you imadeanaccount for inspiring me to make my bot open source after you made yours
thank you to the people at HNRSS for offering an easy way to grab Hacker News posts as RSS for the original version of this code, @hackernews
thank you to the axios, dotenv, and rss-parser libraries. without them, this bot would not exist.
and of course, thank you jeffalo for making the amazing wasteof.money.