crisbal/playstorelinks_bot

A Reddit Bot that links to Android Apps when requested.

PlayStoreLinks_Bot

A Reddit bot that links to Android Apps from the Play Store when a user asks to do it.

The bot was written on an Arch Linux machine with Python 3, so you need Python 3 to run it. It runs on a Raspberry Pi with Debian.

Where to look

• LinkMeBot/LinkMeBot.py, the main script
• LinkMeBot/RemoveBadComments.py, the scripts that remove downvoted comments
• LinkMeBot/Config.example.py, an example configuration file
• PlayStore/, a module for searching the PlayStore
• test/, tests

How to run it

• git clone the project
• cd PlayStoreLinks_Bot
• python3 -m venv venv
  • this will create a virtual environment for the bot to run in
• source venv/bin/activate
  • activate the bot
• pip install -r requirements.txt
  • install requirements
• Create a reddit app as script
• Set a valid username, password, client_id, client_secret in the LinkMeBot/Config.py file
• python -m LinkMeBot.LinkMeBot
  • You can run tests with python -m unittest

Info / Reddit-related questions / See the bot in action

http://www.reddit.com/r/cris9696

Feel free to make a new post if you want to test the bot

Want to help or want help?

• If you want to help please feel free to do it.
• If you need help please fell free to ask me.
• If you find any bug or exploit please tell me: I will try to fix them or if you want you can fix them and I will include your changes in the project.
• If you find a way to improve the bot, please share it with everybody.

LICENSE

MIT License

playstorelinks_bot's Issues

Use words instead of long numbers for download count

As requested here https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/79bzn0/developer_of_the_linkme_bot_here_i_just_want_to/dp0uh4j/?context=3

Show price for paid apps

Or at least some symbol like $$$

It is not hard to do since the price is written in the search page.

Adding database support to save found apps

This because I can save web requests and I can do all sorts of statistics about apps people search for.

Feature request: also find app in f-droid app store

As a reddit user it would be nice to get infos from non-google-playstore, too

When requested write the first paragraph of the description on an app

Summon the bot with linkmedesc: appName. and you get a link + a small description (1st paragraph or max 500chars) for that app

Showing if an app has IAP or not

Could be done but needs 2 web requests.

"linkme:" search for an empty string

Example: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/26dwmh/what_app_is_very_useful_but_needs_a_better/chqbw5n

Don't trigger response on quoted text

As requested here https://www.reddit.com/r/cris9696/comments/79bsd0/feedback_for_the_new_features/dp0rbuk/

The bot goes crazy when there is a ] in the app title.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidGaming/comments/2ab8xa/need_help_choosing_my_next_game_purchase/ciuvk00

App name: HD] Wallpaper - idol, K-Pop

Remove responses if the parent is removed

As requested here https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/79bzn0/developer_of_the_linkme_bot_here_i_just_want_to/dp0r3ng/

Implementing a better algorithm to check if the searched app is the same as the found app.

Maybe using something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance

If the found app is really different then add a warning.

Add more categories

It is a boring work but someone has to do it sooner of later.

See here for hints to apps and categories.

http://www.reddit.com/r/cris9696/comments/1ugz82/introducing_linking_to_categories_of_apps/