pranay0302/senpaibot

reddit bot

senpai bot

this is a simple reddit bot which downloads "hot" posts of the given subreddits.

Dependencies

In order to use this bot you need to install the dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Installation

To make this bot work, you need to have a reddit account.

1. Sign in with your reddit account
2. Go here and create an app
3. Generate a new OAuth token and add the tokens in the .env file

Create a .env file

  client_id="your_client_id"
  client_secret="your_client_secret"
  password="your_password"
  user_agent="your_user_agent"
  username="your_username"

In between those quotes, you have to add your tokens which you generated previously.

Usage

Once you are done with adding the creds, you can execute the bot

python main.py

Hopefully at this point, you might see "logged into reddit successfully" message being displayed. The images will be downloaded in the img folder.

Additionals

1. You can add your favourite subreddits in the subreddits.txt.
2. You can alter the limit size for the posts

Have doubts?

Feel free to raise an issue.