Article Summarizer Bot

Article Summarizer Bot is a Reddit bot designed to automatically summarize news articles and post the summaries as comments on related posts in a subreddit.

Introduction

This bot was created to assist users in staying informed about news articles posted on a specific subreddit. It scans the content of news articles linked in the subreddit posts, generates concise summaries using Goggle's Gemini, and posts these summaries as comments on the original posts.

Features

• Automatically scans 'rising' posts in a subreddit for news articles
• Generates summaries of linked news articles
• Posts summaries as comments on relevant posts

Getting Started

To use the Article Summarizer Bot, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/article-summarizer-bot.git

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Set up your Reddit and Google Gemini API credentials by creating a .env file and adding your credentials:

   REDDIT_USERNAME=your_username
   REDDIT_PASSWORD=your_password
   REDDIT_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id
   REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret
   GOOGLE_API_KEY=your_gemini_key
   

4. Run the bot:

   python main.py

Contributing

Contributions to the Article Summarizer Bot project are welcome! If you find a bug or have a feature request, please open an issue. Pull requests are also appreciated.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.