WIP for a reddit bot that gives you the prerequisites for a UCI course. it comes in two parts:
- creates a json file for the desired course department's courses and its prereqs
- runs a reddit bot to reply to a comment requesting a course's prereqs
it also creates a logfile that records any comments and errors the bot generates while trying to post comments.
very very very much still a work in progress! this is a very quick and rough implementation. read the TODO!
- praw
- python3
- edit uciprereqsbot.sh and change
deptto whichever department you'd like to get courses from - edit bot.py and change
subreddit = reddit.subreddit('X')where X is the subreddit you'd like to monitor
- generate the json source for prereqs
./uci-prereqs-bot.sh --get-prereqs
- run the bot
./uci-prereqs
- summon the bot on reddit
- comment "UCIPreReqs DEPARTMENT NUM" for prerequisites
- example: UCIPreReqs COMPSCI 161
there's a lot of room for improvement (obviously!)
- write some tests
- automate creation of multiple department's course json files
- monitor multiple departments
- handle comments with additional text (other than the call for the bot and the course name)
- fix formatting of comment replies
- make code readable, fix variable/function names, make it more efficient
- clean up log files
- use regular expressions with python in a project
- create a functioning reddit bot
- write a shell script to automate part of the proccess (in this case downloading the prereqs html page is sort of automated)
- use and produce a json file
- put something on github
thanks to @billycastelli for showing me how to make a reddit bot at your workshop!