Post reddit content to instagram

Usage

• Add new bot(s) to ./bots exports
• Set arguments
• Run npm start

On a scheduled run a bot will scrape content from one of the subreddits and post it to the instagram account with given credentials.

Bot Arguments

All bots are started and managed by pm2. Bot options are passed via arguments. You can either load bots on startup or start them from an api endpoint.

required:

• --subreddits: List of subbredit names (comma seperated)
• --schedule: The bots posting schedule in crontab syntax (seconds granularity)
• --insta: The instragram credentials as "username:password"

optional:

• --tags: List of tag names (without #'s) included on every post (comma seperated)
• --explore: The bot will go to the instagram explore page and like content

the explore job runs on a random schedule

Starting new Bots

On startup all the bots exported from /bots will be loaded. A bot config follows the pm2 app declaration and must at least contain following properties:

export function memes() {
  return {
    name: 'memes',
    args: '--subreddits images --schedule "0 10 * * *" --insta user:pass',
  };
}

Api endpoints

See api documentation

Development Setup

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/KaindlJulian/repost.git

Install dependencies

npm install

Running the app:

1. Use npm run dev. This will compile all files and start processes (bots and api) with pm2. The bots are specified in bots/*

2. Debug with vscode (see launch.json)

When running the app with NODE_ENV=development api requests do not require an api key. Also the puppeteer launch config is not headless.

Running Tests

You can run all tests with npm run test or debug tests with vscode.