/nihilistic-reddit-bot

A bot that replies to negative comments with nihilism
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nihilistic-reddit-bot

This is a Node.js Reddit bot that captures comments with negative sentiment, and replies to them with nihlism.

Setup

Start by setting up the required environment variables either in a local .env file or as Heroku config vars.

# API info
CLIENT_ID=***
CLIENT_SECRET=***
REDDIT_USER=***
REDDIT_PASS=***
# Comment stream setting
RESULTS=25
# Sentiment settings
METRIC_THRESHOLD=-15
WORD_COUNT_THRESHOLD=80
# Subreddit(s) to stream comments from
SUBREDDIT=subreddit1+subreddit2+...

Build

$ npm install

Usage

$ npm start

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