patmulvihill / reddit_mention_bot

A reddit bot that private messages you when you have been mentioned in a comment. [Python using PRAW]

###Reddit Mention Bot

This Reddit Mention Bot will parse through comments in user-defined subreddits to check if the searched_username you define in the config.py file has been mentioned using Reddit.com's '/u/' + config.searched_username format. In order to use this bot, you must clone it, install pip and install PRAW using pip install praw. You also have to rename config.py.example to config.py and edit the variables in that file to your liking. You must then create a new reddit account, register an application at https://ssl.reddit.com/prefs/apps and place the app's credentials (username, password, client_id, client_secret) in the config.py folder. You can define the amount of submissions that the bot parses in each iteration (lim), the subreddits the bot checks for your username in (subs), and the amount of time that your bot sleeps between each iteration (sleep_time) in the config.py file.
This bot will also create a comments_replied_to.txt file in the installation directory that keeps track of the comment ID's of comments that the bot has already handled. The bot will not respond to itself and is case insensitive.