Reddit bot that blesses sneezes.

README.md

TheBlessYouBot

Reddit bot that gives out 'bless you's

reply_post.py

#Special thanks to Shantnu "shantnu" Tiwari for his tutorial series "Build a Reddit Bot" on pythonforengineers.com

#!/usr/bin/python
import praw
import pdb
import re
import os

# Create the Reddit instance
reddit = praw.Reddit('bot1')

def idTracker():
    # 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))
    
    return posts_replied_to



# Select your desired subreddit
subreddit = reddit.subreddit('SUBREDDIT')
def main(posts_replied_to):
    for submission in subreddit.hot(limit=10):
     # If we haven't replied to this post before
        if submission.id not in posts_replied_to:
            # Search for cases representing a sneeze 
            if re.search("sneeze", submission.title, re.IGNORECASE) or re.search("achoo", submission.title, re.IGNORECASE):
                # Reply to the post 
                response = "Bless you u/" + str(submission.author) + "/n
                submission.reply(response)
                print("Bot replying to : ", submission.id)

                # Store the current id into our list
                posts_replied_to.append(submission.id)
                # Write our updated list back to the file
                with open("posts_replied_to.txt", "a") as f:
                    f.write(submission.id + "\n")
#Steps are the same for this but focusing on comments in the subreddit rather than post titles
    for comment in subreddit.comments(limit=500):
        if comment.id not in posts_replied_to:
            if re.search("sneeze", comment.body, re.IGNORECASE) or re.search("achoo", comment.body, re.IGNORECASE):
                response = "Bless you u/" + str(comment.author)
                comment.reply(response)
                print("Bot replying to : ", comment.id)

                posts_replied_to.append(comment.id)

                with open ("posts_replied_to.txt", "a") as f:
                    f.write(comment.id + "\n")


posts_replied_to = idTracker()
print posts_replied_to

while True:
	main(posts_replied_to)

requirements.txt

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backports.shutil-which==3.5.2
bleach==3.1.0
certifi==2019.6.16
chardet==3.0.4
colorama==0.4.1
configparser==3.8.1
decorator==4.4.0
defusedxml==0.6.0
entrypoints==0.3
enum34==1.1.6
functools32==3.2.3.post2
futures==3.3.0
idna==2.8
ipaddress==1.0.22
ipykernel==4.10.1
ipython==5.8.0
ipython-genutils==0.2.0
ipywidgets==7.5.1
isort==4.3.21
Jinja2==2.10.1
jsonschema==3.0.2
jupyter==1.0.0
jupyter-client==5.3.1
jupyter-console==5.2.0
jupyter-core==4.5.0
lazy-object-proxy==1.4.2
MarkupSafe==1.1.1
mccabe==0.6.1
mistune==0.8.4
nbconvert==5.6.0
nbformat==4.4.0
notebook==5.7.8
pandocfilters==1.4.2
pathlib2==2.3.4
pickleshare==0.7.5
praw==6.3.1
prawcore==1.0.1
prometheus-client==0.7.1
prompt-toolkit==1.0.16
Pygments==2.4.2
pylint==1.9.5
pyrsistent==0.15.4
python-dateutil==2.8.0
pywinpty==0.5.5
pyzmq==18.1.0
qtconsole==4.5.5
requests==2.22.0
scandir==1.10.0
Send2Trash==1.5.0
simplegeneric==0.8.1
singledispatch==3.4.0.3
six==1.12.0
terminado==0.8.2
testpath==0.4.2
tornado==5.1.1
traitlets==4.3.2
update-checker==0.16
urllib3==1.25.3
wcwidth==0.1.7
webencodings==0.5.1
websocket-client==0.56.0
widgetsnbextension==3.5.1
win-unicode-console==0.5
wrapt==1.11.2