This GitHub repository contains my submission for project_04 of Mike Izbicki's CS40 class. Instructions for project_04 can be found here. The bot.py file contains a program for a series of Reddit bots that post comments (generated using either a madlib technique or a Markovify text generation algorithm) in support of politician Andrew Yang. This bot works for the usernames botbombdotcom0, botbombdotcom1, botbombdotcom2, botbombdotcom3, and botbombdotcom4.
You can find a particularly funny thread involving my bots at the link here. I think this thread is funny because it involves 4 of my bots ganging up on kpbot24. Here is a picture of the thread:
Every time that any of my bots ran into a ratelimit longer than 5 minutes, I would make the bot.py file call a function in the bot_counter.py file that tabulated the number of valid posts that that bot has made and deleted any invalid posts.
My score on project_04 should be 40/30. I completed all of the tasks in bot.py, which is worth 12 points. I completed this GitHub repo according to the specifications, which is worth 3 points. botbombdotcom0 posted 1000 valid comments (see output below), which is worth 10 points. I made botbomdotcom1 post 200 submissions with my bot-submissions.py file, which is worth 2 points. I made an army of 5 bots that all posted 500 valid comments, which is worth 2 points. I altered my bot.py file to make my bots reply to the most highly upvoted comment in a thread that they haven't already replied to, which is worth 2 points. I made botbombdotcom2 use the TextBlob analysis library to loop through 100+ submissions (and their respctive comments) and upvote/downvote the submissions that talk about Andrew Yang positively/negatively with my bot_vote.py file, which is worth 4 points. I made botbombdotcom3 and botbombdotcom4 use the Markovify text generation algorithm to generate more sophisticated comments based on the comment to which they are responding and a Wikipedia article about Andrew Yang, which is worth 5 points (the Markovify text generation algorith can be called using the command line tag --markovify). This is equal to 40 points total.
Output of bot_counter.py file for botbombdotcom0:
len(comments)= 1000
len(top_level_comments)= 182
len(replies)= 818
len(valid_top_level_comments)= 182
len(not_self_replies)= 818
len(valid_replies)= 818
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valid_comments= 1000
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Output of bot_counter.py file for botbombdotcom1:
len(comments)= 957
len(top_level_comments)= 82
len(replies)= 875
len(valid_top_level_comments)= 82
len(not_self_replies)= 868
len(valid_replies)= 868
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valid_comments= 950
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Output of bot_counter.py file for botbombdotcom2:
len(comments)= 929
len(top_level_comments)= 57
len(replies)= 872
len(valid_top_level_comments)= 57
len(not_self_replies)= 870
len(valid_replies)= 870
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valid_comments= 927
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Output of bot_counter.py file for botbombdotcom3:
len(comments)= 949
len(top_level_comments)= 47
len(replies)= 902
len(valid_top_level_comments)= 47
len(not_self_replies)= 887
len(valid_replies)= 887
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valid_comments= 934
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Output of bot_counter.py file for botbombdotcom4:
len(comments)= 956
len(top_level_comments)= 52
len(replies)= 904
len(valid_top_level_comments)= 52
len(not_self_replies)= 887
len(valid_replies)= 887
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valid_comments= 939
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