DRW Prospect Reddit Bot

This is a twitter subreddit bot written in Python. It currently adds all daily posts from DRWProspects twitter account into a single post to the Detroit Red Wings subreddit's daily discussion or game day thread post.

THIS PROJECT WILL NO LONGER BE UPDATED. SEE twitter-subreddit-bot

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for different purposes. See Use section for notes on how to use the bot.

Prerequisites

You will need to have Python 3.6+, PRAW, and python-twitter

***If you've just installed Python3, pip3 will be included but might not be up-to-date. Update it by running the command:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

pip3 will now be updated to version 18.1 For more information or more help on using pip3, reference Using pip3 to install Python modules

Now install the necessary modules with the following commands:

pip3 install praw

pip3 install python-twitter

Installing

Clone or download the respository.

Use

In Terminal or Command Prompt, run the following command in the directory of the repo:

python3 bot.py

If the config.json file doesn't exist yet, it will be generated.

Replace each 'x' with the correct values to log into Reddit and Twitter, then run the previous command again. If everything was installed correctly, the program should state the correctly found Reddit thread, as well as list all of the tweets found, and then post the tweets found to the reddit thread.

This command/program will need to be ran again each time it is used.

Adjustment/Repurpose

The program is currently configured for the specific purpose of posting information about Detroit Red Wings prospects onto the r/DetroitRedWings subreddit daily post.

There are future plans to change adjustment options to config.json rather than hardcode, but this is currently not the case.

To use for another purpose, open bot.py in your favorite editor and edit the following:

Change the name of the subreddit:

subreddit = reddit.subreddit('DetroitRedWings')

Change the way the Reddit thread is found, unless you are looking for posts from a specific user within the top 2 Hot, in which case then you only need to change the name of the user:

for submission in subreddit.hot(limit=2):
		if (submission.author == "OctoMod"):
	 		print("Found submission titled: " + submission.title)

Change the Twitter user and the amount of tweets:

updates = twitterApi.GetUserTimeline(screen_name='DRWProspects', count=10)

Adjust the text added around the data pulled from the twitter updates:

message = ("Yesterday's Results:\n")
	for x in updates:
		d = datetime.strptime(x.created_at,'%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %z %Y');
		if (d.date() == datetime.today().date()):
			message = message + (str(x.full_text) + "\n\n").replace("#RedWings", " ")

	message = message + "I am a bot and this action was performed automatically. More information can be found at [My GitHub](https://github.com/randykinne/DRW-Prospect-Reddit-Bot)"
	message = message + "\n\nData Source: https://twitter.com/DRWProspects"

Contributing

Feel free to contribute. When submitting pull requests, include details on changes made.

Future Plans

• Changing data source information from hardcode to config.json to make program more usable for a variety of purposes
• Adding prompts for user confirmation for various events in the program to allow user to ensure that the bot is operating correctly

Examples

Check out u/DRWProspectBot on Reddit.

Authors

• Randy Kinne - All Work - randykinne

License

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.