randykinne/drw-prospect-bot

A cloud function to post prospect updates to the Detroit Red Wings subreddit

drw-prospect-bot

This is a bot written in Python. It currently adds all daily posts from a twitter account into a single post to a subreddit thread - specifically, a post about the prospects of the Detroit Red Wings.

Deployment

The bot is currently deployed as a Cloud Function which is subscribed to the updates Cloud Pub/Sub topic.

The updates topic recieves scheduled messages from Cloud Scheduler. Fancy.

Config

Parameter	Type	Description	Default value
client_id	str	Your reddit client id	X
client_secret	str	Your reddit client secret	X
password	str	Your reddit account password	X
username	str	Your reddit account username	X
access_key	str	Your twitter access key	X
access_secret	str	Your twitter access secret	X
consumer_key	str	Your twitter consumer key	X
consumer_secret	str	Your twitter consumer secret	X
author_name	str	Author of the reddit thread to comment on	name
confirm_actions	boo	Boolean value of whether to confirm the bot's actions before they happen	True
message_prefix	str	Prefix to attach to the twitter updates the bot posts	message_prefix
message_replace	[str]	Replace text in the tweets. Useful for repetitive hashtags. Can only replace one word with another single word.	["word", "replaceWith"]
message_suffix	[str]	Suffix to attach to the twitter updates the bot posts on Reddit.	["suffix_1", "suffix_2"]
subreddit_name	str	Name of subreddit to search for posts	subreddit
subreddit_sort_by	int	0 for hot, 1 for new, 2 for top	0
testing	boo	When enabled, testing prevents the bot from actually posting to Reddit	True
twitter_count	int	Number of tweets to get from Twitter. Max limit of time is 30 regardless of the number of tweets getting	15
twitter_name	str	Username of twitter account to pull tweets from	twitter_name
verbose	boo	Boolean value of whether to print updates to console. Recommended: True	True

Contributors

• Randy Kinne - Creator - GitHub
• Evan Lock - Contributor - GitHub

License

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

drw-prospect-bot's Issues

Error thrown when there isn't a subreddit post to find.

Fix logic to post to log and exit after the submission is not found.