RePAWster

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.