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Add configurable denylist for tweet contents #438

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12 changes: 12 additions & 0 deletions config.js
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Expand Up @@ -217,6 +217,18 @@ module.exports = config = convict({
}
},
twitter: {
badWords: {
doc: 'Words the bot should never tweet',
format: String,
default: [
/* Racial slurs that might get output from owo() for @BBCBweaking
* (we only wish to block if it's a word the bot might generate
* for itself; other words have a chance of being newsworthy so
* we'll outsource the editorial judgement to the BBC and Reuters)
*/
'wog', 'wogs', 'wop', 'wops'
]
},
keys: {
consumerKey: {
doc: 'Twitter consumer key',
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions modules/twitter.js
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Expand Up @@ -90,6 +90,12 @@ module.exports = {
const user = bot.config.get('twitter.tweetUser')
if (!user) return 'tweeting disabled'
bot.log('silly', 'Tweeting...')
if (bot.config.has('twitter.badWords')) {
const badTweet = bot.config.get('twitter.badWords').some((x) => {
msg.body.test(new RegExp(`\\b${x}\\b`))
})
if (badTweet) throw new Error('Word on denylist; not tweeting')
}
const tweet = await bot.tweet(user, { status: msg.body })
return 'https://twitter.com/statuses/' + tweet.id_str
}
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