Bot that x-posts from /r/nosleep to /r/best_of_nosleep
There's a lot of not-so-great stories on /r/nosleep. This script arbitrarily selects the best ones and post them to /r/best_of_nosleep.
Right now, the bot runs as follows: every day at 9 AM Eastern Time, the bot will pull a list of the top 50 posts in the last week. It will begin searching through the posts and add matching posts to a stack if: the post was made four calender days ago (17/01/01 posts were posted on 17/01/04) and the post does NOT have the 'Series' flair. Once the stack has 3 posts, the bot will begin popping posts off the stack and posting them to /r/best_of_nosleep using non-participation links with titles of the format [$iso-format-date, +$score] "$original-title" by /u/$original-poster.
If you're using this, I assume it's to automatically post to a similar subreddit. In which case, you'll want to replace the hard-coded strings 'nosleep' and 'best_of_nosleep' in script.py with your source and output subs respectively. Next, you'll want to use the pickle python module to dump a dict to the file data.p in the same directory as the script.py file. The dict should have the following fields, as described by the PRAW documentation for script-type bots:
- client_id
- client_secret
- password
- user_agent
- username
Then, you'll want to use pip to install the necessary requirements from the requirements.txt file. You can do that with:
pip install -r requirements.txt.
You'll want to have pip installed and, naturally, this should be done in a virtual environment. Also, for reference, I'm using Python 2.7.6, which I'm sure is less than ideal.
From there, running this from the terminal with python script.py will be enough. Ideally, you'd want to make this a cronjob or your OS's equivalent to ensure it runs automatically at midnight. But, you could always leave it running all the time and use a time.sleep() of the appropriate length instead.