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This is a bot which finds rare, colorful words in Reddit comments and defines them for readers.
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dictionary added a words file containing already-defined words. Jan 28, 2020
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LICENSE.mit MIT License Dec 27, 2019
Pipfile added some heuristics and added calls to the dictionary API Jan 26, 2020
Pipfile.lock added some heuristics and added calls to the dictionary API Jan 26, 2020
README.md
comments.txt fixed up the file management to support process killing Feb 4, 2020
criteria.py
pipeline.py fixed up the file management to support process killing Feb 4, 2020
reddit_fmt.py fixed up the file management to support process killing Feb 4, 2020
secrets.template.py pushing new files up Dec 30, 2019
source.py fixed a few things and made the comment deletion periodic job indepen… Feb 3, 2020
webster.py Managed to run the bot for an entire workday! Added a feature to igno… Jan 28, 2020
words.py very close to finished - added retries when the bot makes comments to… Jan 29, 2020
words.txt fixed up the file management to support process killing Feb 4, 2020

README.md

Warning: ugly code ahead. This project started as a way for me to learn Python but became quite a bit more substantial as I got into the problem.

lit-word-bot

This is a bot which finds rare, colorful words in Reddit comments and defines them for readers. You can see some of its comments here: https://www.reddit.com/user/lit_word_bot

It relies on heuristics to make a good guess as to whether or not a word is worth defining. While it's not 100% perfect, readers seem to enjoy the comments. Any given comment can be easily deleted by readers if it's not desired.

Status: The bot can run all day autonomously. Readers seem to by-and-large like the comments it makes. As of writing this, it's earned 1864 "upvotes" in the space of about 2 days.

If you'd like to mess around with it, you should:

  • Modify the code to eliminate the API calls (.define, obtain(), and reddit_rw), then mess around as such. You're free to do whatever you want.

It was written on Python 3.8 and compatibility with older versions is unknown. You'll need to run "pipenv install" in the directory before it will work. Then, run pipenv run python pipeline.py. Wallah!

If you'd like to contribute or improve something, feel free to contribute!! I will look at your pull request and decide whether or not to include it.

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