The animated logo immediately caught my attention. Kudos to Ken, the illustrator [1]. Great portfolio.<p>[1] <a href="http://cargocollective.com/kensamonte/" rel="nofollow">http://cargocollective.com/kensamonte/</a>
Interesting. It relies on a central service that's polling Reddit, though. Why not a distributed, peer-to-peer system instead? By combining the power of hundreds of individual nodes polling the site, you could have fast visibility of new content without being too obvious to the site being monitored.
That seems to work really well, thanks for your work. I might use it.<p>One thing I'm struggling with is the data model, of what exactly is returned on an event. I see that right that rockets is sending data like the API would've returned them, and that is why they are not defined in the code?<p>I'm new to Reddits Api and was wondering how to get a comments url. Just realizing that I should just echo the full object and find keys that way. I'm leaving the comment, maybe you want to add some documentation/links to the proper Api documentation in that direction.
I wanted this for a script I was thinking of writing, nice!<p>Unfortunately, I'm a total convenience victim these days, and any node-based service is very unlikely to enter my stack. Python is okay, Go is best. I just love only deploying a single binary. I think it speaks volumes that I like writing Python but like deploying Go.
Websockets? That means the Reddit bot will be listening from a webpage? Is that how Reddit bots operate? I'm confused, I thought Reddit bots would be a normal computer process, listening/polling for content and making HTTP calls to the API, nothing from a web browser. Someone please explain it to me!