A cool wasteof.money bot built with Node.js that posts articles from The Onion (a well-regarded, world-renowned reputable news site) on wasteof every day.
Basically, once per day, the bot visits The Onion's website (https://theonion.com/latest) and scrapes details about the most recent article (the headline, preview, article link, and post date), creates a nice-looking, well-formatted image (similar to the example below), and posts it to wasteof.money along with the link to the article.
Each day's image is also committed to this repository under the images folder.
The bot uses Puppeteer, a Chromium-based Node.js library popular for web scraping, to scrape data about The Onion articles, filters out articles containing profanity using the bad-words module, and generates an image using the Puppeteer-based module, node-html-to-image.
I created the bot in a couple of hours and wanted to open-source it so that other people could use the code/structure to make other things, such as bots for other news/blog/etc. website, so I licensed it under the MIT license to give as much freedom as possible. :)
with wasteof usernames
- @imadeanaccount: Code
- @da-ta: Branding
- @9999: Spelling/Grammar 💀