superdelphi/reddit-place-script-2022

Script to draw a Bitcoin image onto r/place (https://www.reddit.com/r/place/)

Bitcoin r/place bot

About

This is a script to draw Bitcoin's logo into r/place (https://www.reddit.com/r/place/).

Features

• Support for multiple accounts
• Determines the cooldown time remaining for each account
• Detects existing matching pixels on the r/place map and skips them
• Automatically converts colors to the r/place color palette

Requirements

• Python 3
• A Reddit App Client ID and App Secret Key

How to Get App Client ID and App Secret Key

You need to generate an app client id and app secret key for each account in order to use this script.

Steps:

1. Visit https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps
2. Click "create (another) app" button at very bottom
3. Select the "script" option and fill in the fields with anything

If you don't want to create a development app for each account, you can add each username as a developer in the developer app settings. You will need to duplicate the client ID and secret in .env, though.

Python Package Requirements

Install requirements from 'requirements.txt' file.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Get Started

.env is already pre-made with the right coordinates. Just add your accounts as follows:

• ENV_PLACE_USERNAME is an array of usernames of developer accounts
• ENV_PLACE_PASSWORD is an array of the passwords of developer accounts
• ENV_PLACE_APP_CLIENT_ID is an array of the client ids for the app / script registered with Reddit
• ENV_PLACE_SECRET_KEY is an array of the secret keys for the app / script registered with Reddit
• ENV_R_START is an array which specifies which x position of the original image to start at while drawing it
• ENV_C_START is an array which specifies which y position of the original image to start at while drawing it

Note: Multiple fields can be passed into the arrays to spawn a thread for each one.

Run the Script

python3 main.py

Multiple Workers

If you want two threads drawing the image at once you could have a setup like this:

ENV_PLACE_USERNAME='["developer_username_1", "developer_username_2"]'
ENV_PLACE_PASSWORD='["developer_password_1", "developer_password_2"]'
ENV_PLACE_APP_CLIENT_ID='["app_client_id_1", "app_client_id_2"]'
ENV_PLACE_SECRET_KEY='["app_secret_key_1", "app_secret_key_2"]'
ENV_DRAW_X_START="960"
ENV_DRAW_Y_START="465"
ENV_R_START='["0", "0"]'
ENV_C_START='["0", "50"]'

The same pattern can be used for multiple drawing at once. Note that the "ENV_PLACE_USERNAME", "ENV_PLACE_PASSWORD", "ENV_PLACE_APP_CLIENT_ID", "ENV_PLACE_SECRET_KEY", "ENV_R_START", and "ENV_C_START" variables MUST be string arrays of the same size.

Also note that I did the following in the above example:

ENV_R_START='["0", "0"]'
ENV_C_START='["0", "50"]'

In this case, the first worker will start drawing from (0, 0) and the second worker will start drawing from (0, 50) from the input image.jpg file.

This is useful if you want different threads drawing different parts of the image with different accounts.

If you'd like, you can enable Verbose Mode by editing the Python file. This will output a lot more information, and not neccessarily in the right order, but it is useful for development and debugging.