The bot finds comments with imperial units, and replies with metric units.
There is a chance it will reply to certain triggers like "good bot". (See here for what the triggers are).
See ./test/converter-test.js for what conversions are currently supported, and see Pivotal Tracker for what's coming up next
This is a javascript app built with Node.js, and all of the app code is in the src directory.
The app starts in bot.js, this file is responsible for repeatedly checking for new comments and replying to messages in an infinite loop. It uses the following modules:
converter.js and units_lookup_map.js are responsible for taking a message, and deciding which imperial units should be converted to which metric units (if any).
reply_maker.js constructs reply strings to comment
helper.js helps with mocking external dependencies in tests
network.js handles get, post, and OAuth network requests and parses the responses for easier consumption
personality.js create sassy responses to certain trigger words
analytics.js will save events in the ./private directory
Create your bot's reddit account.
Create a reddit script app through your reddit preferences. (Use http://localhost as your redirect url, we don't need it.) From there, you should be able to get your OAuth username and secret
Download the code, and create a file ./private/environment.yaml that looks like:
oauth-username: your-oauth-username
oauth-secret: your-oauth-secret
reddit-username: your-username-here
reddit-password: your-password-here
version: your-bot-version
dev-mode: false #true will print POST requests to the console, instead of actually making the POST to the server
run npm install then node ./src/bot.js and you should have the bot up and running!
run npm test
The pre-commit hook will run tests before each commit. It will only allow code to be committed if all tests are passing successfully and there are no unnecessary console.log statements.
To enable git hooks, copy the file pre-commit into the ./.git/hooks/ directory
Feel free to message me on reddit or open a github issue
This source is distributed under GNU GPLv3
Pull requests or derivative works welcome. but please don't make an imperial_units_bot just to spite me D: