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comment-bot
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npm module to easily setup a reddit comment bot!
npm install comment-bot
const commentBot = require('comment-bot');
const creds = {
userAgent: process.env.USER_AGENT,
clientId: process.env.CLIENT_ID,
clientSecret: process.env.CLIENT_SECRET,
username: process.env.REDDIT_USER,
password: process.env.REDDIT_PASS
};
const bot = new commentBot(creds);
streamComment method is setup as so.
// streamComment(options, callback);
bot.streamComment(undefined, (comment) => {
console.log(comment);
});
const options = {
subreddit: 'all',
results: 25
};
const bot = new commentBot(creds);
bot.streamComments(options, (comments) => {
if (comment.body.includes('meow') {
comment.reply('🐈');
};
});
FAQs
Setup a reddit comment bot quick!
The npm package comment-bot receives a total of 3 weekly downloads. As such, comment-bot popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that comment-bot demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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