huginn/huginn

Reddit Agent

amacgregor opened this issue · 11 comments

amacgregor commented

I have some code from a similar project that can be adapted to create a Reddit Agent

cantino commented

Hey @amacgregor, that'd be very cool.

0xdevalias commented

@amacgregor Was this still something you had laying around/wanted to contribute?

0xdevalias commented

Added to agent suggestions list in #353

Deleted user commented

I was thinking about taking a stab at this reddit agent. I've been using the website scraper to grab all posts on the new section of a subreddit and parse the json using a trigger agent.

The website agent already has most of the functionality we would need for an iteration 0 of grabbing from reddit. Some things I would want to see built-in:

  • Grabbing posts from hot/new/rising/controversial views of a sub-reddit
  • option to choose ssl or not (http vs https)
  • Following a particular user's posts

The functionality above deals with just scraping pages anonymously. I can imagine having the ability to log-in to your account, and perform actions as well. Thoughts?

cantino commented

Hey @mcgriddle. Welcome!

I could see two approaches:

  1. you might be able to achieve most of the above using Huginn itself, with a set of WebsiteAgents and triggers. (You might need to add a few small missing features to Huginn as well.)

  2. You could make a dedicated RedditAgent that did portions of the above in pure Ruby.

Deleted user commented

So I started to write some code around a reddit agent, but the more I dug into it the more opinionated I realized the agent would have to be. I prefer just to use the existing agents: Website -> Deduplication -> Trigger -> Formatter -> Pushbullet

cantino commented

You could put those in a Scenario and then export and share it.

kholbekj commented

Hey guys. I've started on this as my first agent, it's in a very rough, but functional state:
https://github.com/kholbekj/huginn/blob/reddit_agent/app/models/agents/reddit_agent.rb

It currently serves my intended purposes, but I'd love some feedback to refine it and create a PR <3

cantino commented

Hey @kholbekj, welcome! This might be a good candidate for pulling into a gem using https://github.com/cantino/huginn_agent. You're also welcome to make a preliminary PR to Huginn with this and we can give some feedback.

kholbekj commented

Okay, I'll start with the PR then, and look into extraction at some point!

HaxCzar commented

Any word on when this will be added?

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