bitofnewsbot

Source of popular Reddit bot u/bitofnewsbot

How do I run it?

Setup cron to run it every minute

Instructions for Ubuntu:

• Replace username and password line in bitofnewsbot
• Install cron sudo apt-get install cron
• Open up crontab to edit cron sudo crontab -e
• Tell it to run every minute: * * * * * /usr/bin/python bitofnewsbot.py

Submissions are stored in done.txt so they're not commented on again.

TODO: use sqllite3. The point is to have minimum setup

Dependencies

• PyTeaser: pip install pyteaser

Go to official PyTeaser repo for help with installation.

Variables

These are the variables you can set.

TODO: Put all this shit in a config file

• submissions_limit - number of top subissions to check during each cron period
• thresh_max - karma threshholds for commenting
• thresh_min - karma threshholds for commenting
• username - Reddit login details
• password - Reddit login password
• comments_per_run - comments per cron period
• sentences_per_summary - sentences per summary
• subreddits - "worldnews+worldpolitics"
• agent - "u/bitofnewsbot"
• filestore - to store submission ids of ones that are commented, "done.txt"