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Publishes trending reddit submissions to a facebook page.

internet rule #24: Every repost is always a repost of a repost.

Running

1. Clone the repo
2. npm install
3. Duplicate env.example file, rename to .env and set your custom values.
4. node bin/www
5. Go to localhost:3000 to authenticate with Facebook.

If all goes well, you should see this: Look at the console output for errors.

Environment variables

• REDDIT_ID: your reddit app ID

• REDDIT_SECRET: reddit app secret

• REDDIT_USERNAME

• REDDIT_PASSWORD

• REDDIT_SUB_NAME: the name of the subreddit to repost from

• REDDIT_MIN_SCORE: minimum score to repost submission

• FB_USER_ID: facebook page admin ID (https://findmyfbid.com/)

• FB_PAGE_ID: facebook page ID (found in about section)

• FB_APP_ID

• FB_APP_SECRET

• FB_REDIRECT_URI: The authentication URI (set in facebook app settings)

• FB_PAGE_LONG_TOKEN: non-expiring fb page access token

• MONGO_URL: url to mongo database

• MINUTES_BETWEEN_POSTS: The frequency with which to post

• MUSICONLY: will only repost music (from a set of domains) if set to true

How to generate a non-expiring facebook page access token:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17197970/facebook-permanent-page-access-token