Monitoreddit

Purpose

This little Python script for a reddit bot can monitor subreddits and check them for specific keywords. Once a chosen keyword is dropped within the title of a new submission, the bot sends your actual user a PM with the URL to the post.

Setup

1. Create a reddit account for your bot

2. Login in reddit with the bot

3. Visit this with your bot

4. At the bottom of the page, click create another app...

5. Select Script, and an appropriate name

6. Click on create app

7. Download or clone this repository

8. Navigate to the root of this repository

9. Execute pip install -r requirements.txt

10. Open __main__.py

11. Replace your-user-agent-here with an appropriate value like so

12. Replace your-client-id-here with the value under personal use script that you just created

13. Replace your-secret-here with the value besides secret (you have to click edit on the app to see it)

14. Replace bot_username and bot_password with the respective values of your bot account

15. Replace your-subreddit-here with the name of the subreddit you want to monitor (without r/)

16. Replace your, keywords, here with the actual keyword(s) you want to monitor the subreddit for

17. Save

18. Run python . in the folder of __main__.py