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Send top Hacker News posts to Slack and Google Sheets
const Taro = require('taro-client')(
'__YOUR_API_KEY__'
);
const main = async () => {
const posts = await Taro.scrape.hn({threshold: 400});
if (posts.length === 0) {
return;
}
// Finds or creates a Google Sheet called "HN Posts"
const token = await Taro.sheets.load('HN Posts');
// Retrieves the data from the spreadsheet as JSON
const {data: existing} = await Taro.sheets.retrieve(token);
const existingLinks = existing.map(e => e.link);
// Filter out links that were logged already
const filtered = posts.filter(post => {
return existingLinks.indexOf(post.link) === -1;
});
if (filtered.length === 0) {
console.log('No new posts!');
return;
}
const items = filtered.map(({text, link, score}) => {
return `> <${link}|[${score} points] ${text}>`;
});
const message = ['Top posts on HN:', ...items].join('\n');
// Send new posts to Slack
await Taro.notify.slack({message: message});
// Add new posts to the spreadsheet
await Taro.sheets.append(token, filtered);
console.log('Message successfully sent!', message);
};
module.exports = main;
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