Create linkmakerbot.py

linkmakerbot.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+import praw
+import pdb
+import re
+import os
+import time
+
+# Create the Reddit instance
+reddit = praw.Reddit('bot1')
+
+# and login
+#reddit.login(REDDIT_USERNAME, REDDIT_PASS)
+
+# Have we run this code before? If not, create an empty list
+if not os.path.isfile("posts_replied_to.txt"):
+    posts_replied_to = []
+
+# If we have run the code before, load the list of posts we have replied to
+else:
+    # Read the file into a list and remove any empty values
+    with open("posts_replied_to.txt", "r") as f:
+        posts_replied_to = f.read()
+        posts_replied_to = posts_replied_to.split("\n")
+        posts_replied_to = list(filter(None, posts_replied_to))
+
+# Get the top 5 values from our subreddit
+subreddit = reddit.subreddit('xkcd')
+for submission in subreddit.hot(limit=1):
+    time.sleep(2)
+    # If we haven't replied to this post before
+    if submission.id not in posts_replied_to:
+        # Do a case insensitive search
+        temp = re.findall(r'xkcd \d+', submission.title, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
+        res = list(temp)
+        if len(res)!=0:
+            myreply=""
+            if len(res)>1:
+                myreply="Let me make those links for you:"
+            else:
+                myreply="Let me make that link for you:"
+            for linkNum in res:
+                temp = linkNum.split()
+                temp = temp[-1]
+                temp = int(temp)
+                myreply+="\n\nhttps://xkcd.com/%d" %temp
+            #print(myreply)
+            # Reply to the post
+            submission.reply(myreply)
+            tempMessage="Bot replying to: %s with ID: %s" %(submission.title,submission.id)
+            print(tempMessage)
+            print("Waiting so we don't exceed rate limit...")
+            posts_replied_to.append(submission.id)
+            time.sleep(31)
+
+    for thisComment in submission.comments:
+        time.sleep(2)
+        if thisComment.id not in posts_replied_to:
+            temp = re.findall(r'xkcd \d+', thisComment.body, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
+            res = list(temp)
+            if len(res)!=0:
+                myreply=""
+                if len(res)>1:
+                    myreply="Let me make those links for you:"
+                else:
+                    myreply="Let me make that link for you:"
+                for linkNum in res:
+                    temp = linkNum.split()
+                    temp = temp[-1]
+                    temp = int(temp)
+                    myreply+="\n\nhttps://xkcd.com/%d" %temp
+                #print(myreply)
+                # Reply to the comment
+                thisComment.reply(myreply)
+                tempMessage="Bot replying to a comment in: %s with ID: %s" %(submission.title,thisComment.id)
+                print(tempMessage)
+                print("Waiting so we don't exceed rate limit...")
+                posts_replied_to.append(thisComment.id)
+                time.sleep(31)
+
+# Write our updated list back to the file
+with open("posts_replied_to.txt", "w") as f:
+    for post_id in posts_replied_to:
+        f.write(post_id + "\n")