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Pestilent Lieutenant

Receive an embedded message from Discord whenever you save something on Reddit

Installation

npm install pestilent-lieutenant

How to use

Create a Discord webhook

1. Go to the Discord channel you want to receive Reddit embeds
2. From the channel menu, select Edit Channel
3. Click on Integrations on the left menu
4. Click on Webhooks and then press the Create Webhook button
5. (Optional) Name the bot to whatever you prefer and set an avatar
6. Click Copy Webhook URL and save this link for later

Step 1 and 2	Step 3	Step 4 and 5

Create a Reddit app

1. Create a Reddit app. Select "script" and put in any url and uri. It doesn't matter what you put here, as long as they are valid links
2. Save your client ID and client secret on the dashboard for later

Step 1	Step 2

Configure config.json

Open config.json from the repository and edit the following fields:

Field	What it is	Example
discordWebhook.id	https://discord.com/api/webhooks/this-part-of-the-url/long-token	199737254929760256
discordWebhook.token	https://discord.com/api/webhooks/18-digit-number/this-part-of-the-url	5j-0Uj72BkzYcRt1rL56wVdm7OCIixAAL-nrhLrt41QSw9yDa3jdbT8dFSiRcDjDoeEp
redditAuth.clientId	The client ID you saved from earlier	p-jcoLKBynTLew
redditAuth.clientSecret	The client secret you saved from earlier	gko_LXELoV07ZBNUXrvWZfzE3aI
redditAuth.username	Your Reddit username	Choby9
redditAuth.password	Your Reddit password	abcd1234!@#$
interval	Time interval in milliseconds for how often to check for new saved posts	6000
maxIdleCount	Number of requests with no new saved posts before going idle	5
idleInterval	Time interval in milliseconds for how often to check for new saved posts when idle	30000
avatar_url (optional)	Image url for the webhook avatar. This overwrites the avatar you set from step 5	https://i.redd.it/snoovatar/avatars/ffa9205e-9356-43fd-acb1-12c11c6d4b97.png

Once you're done, you're all set! Now go ahead and start the program with

node .

and enjoy the Reddit posts while I pour this pestilence into your ear...