RePAWster is a Reddit bot utilizing PRAW that reposts top rated pictures of dogs from various active dog subreddits to /r/top_dogs. Subreddits utilized are:
- /r/dogpictures
- /r/DogsOnHardwoodFloors
- /r/DogsWithEyebrows
- /r/DogsWearingHats
- /r/lookatmydog
- /r/dogswearingglasses
- /r/woof_irl
- /r/BelgianMalinois
- /r/bergerbelge
- /r/germanshepard
- /r/labrador
- /r/beagle
- /r/DobermanPinscher
- /r/CorgiGifs
'Top-rated' pictures are manually defined for each subreddit. To find the karma cutoffs I guesstimated for each feeder subreddit such that approximately 1/4 of the best submissions should be cross-posted each run of the bot. PRAW/Reddit have a system for checking duplicate links, so if a link has been submitted to /r/top_dogs recently it will be auto filtered without completing.
The bot runs a on an Ubuntu virtual server with Digital Ocean. The script runs periodically every day using Cron.