Source of popular Reddit bot u/bitofnewsbot
Setup cron to run it every minute
Instructions for Ubuntu:
- Replace username and password line in bitofnewsbot
- Install cron
sudo apt-get install cron - Open up crontab to edit cron
sudo crontab -e - Tell it to run every minute:
* * * * * /usr/bin/python bitofnewsbot.py
Submissions are stored in done.txt so they're not commented on again.
TODO: use sqllite3. The point is to have minimum setup
- PyTeaser:
pip install pyteaser
Go to official PyTeaser repo for help with installation.
These are the variables you can set.
TODO: Put all this shit in a config file
- submissions_limit - number of top subissions to check during each cron period
- thresh_max - karma threshholds for commenting
- thresh_min - karma threshholds for commenting
- username - Reddit login details
- password - Reddit login password
- comments_per_run - comments per cron period
- sentences_per_summary - sentences per summary
- subreddits - "worldnews+worldpolitics"
- agent - "u/bitofnewsbot"
- filestore - to store submission ids of ones that are commented, "done.txt"