reddit-gitbot's Introduction

Reddit Gitbot

This is a Reddit bot built with PRAW to check Reddit comments for erroneous git commands.

Prerequisites

If you want to try out the bot locally, you only need to install PRAW. If the app is to be deployed directly to Heroku, all needed modules are described in the requirements.txt file.

Deployment

First steps

First you would probably want to create a new Reddit account for your bot.

Go to Reddit and create an account.
Login and go to Preferences > Apps and click "create another app..."
Type a name for your app and choose "script". Add a description and provide the "about" and "redirect" URIs.

Next, you will need to create a new heroku account if you don't have one already.

Go to Heroku and create an account.
Create a Heroku app.
Download and install Heroku CLI.
Open Bash or CMD and login to Heroku CLI $ heroku login.

Pre-deployment

Clone the current repository to your local storage.
Rename the folder name to anything you need.
Open the friendbot.py and hintbot.py files and add your Reddit user and app info.
Make changes to both of these files to suit your needs.

Deployment

Open Bash or CMD and cd to your project folder.
Change your remote to $ heroku git:remote -a your_heroku_app_name
Add a buildpack to Heroku so it can understand that this is a Python app. heroku buildpacks:set heroku/python
Commit your changes. git add ., git commit -m "Ready to be deployed".
Deploy your app by typing git push heroku master.

Post-deployment

Go to Heroku and go to you app administration.
Select "Resources" and press the pen button beside your dyno.
Change the slider to active and press confirm.
Press "More" on the top right corner and then "View Logs".
There should be a line State changed from starting to up, that means that your app is up and running.

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