A script for detecting redeemable codes posted on the Magic Arena subreddit and sent to your mobile phone
This tool utilizes the Praw framework to scrape the MTG Arena subreddit for redeemable codes that can be used in the game's store. The script is designed to monitor the subreddit every minute and only report codes that have not already been reported that day, as older ones will already be redeemed and are no longer relevant. To automate this process, scheduling is achieved through the use of a cron script.
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Create a Telegram bot: https://sendpulse.com/knowledge-base/chatbot/telegram/create-telegram-chatbot
Note the token. -
Create a Reddit app under https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps
Choose a name (eg. magicbot) and select "script". For "redirect uri" set ```http://localhost:8080`` -
Clone the repository
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Setup of environment
conda create -n python=3.11.3 redditMTGCodeScraper pip
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In Telegram, initiate a conversation with your bot by typing
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In the telegram_id.py script fill in the token information received upon setup of the Telegram bot and run the script to get chat id
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Information obtained in the previous two steps will be added to ``send_message_to_telegram()``` in the reddit_scraper.py file
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Complete the praw.ini file with your reddit account and script information
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Setup of
cronto schedule script
In terminal:crontab -e
*/1 * * * * cd <path-to-project-directory> && source <path-to-conda-activate-file> <environment-name>; <path-to-conda-python> <path-to-reddit-scraper.py-file>
Example:
*/1 * * * * cd /home/chris/Workspace/redditMTGCodeScraper && source /home/chris/anaconda3/bin/activate redditMTGCodeScraper; /home/chris/anaconda3/envs/redditMTGCodeScraper/bin/python /home/chris/Workspace/redditMTGCodeScraper/reddit_scraper.py -
To check if everything is working as intended, a log file was included, reporting at which times the script has been executed.
- pandas==2.0.1
- praw==7.7.0
- Requests==2.29.0
