https://github.com/dmarx/VideoLinkBot

Reddit bot that posts a comment with all of the video links in a submission. Currently only supports YouTube.
https://github.com/dmarx/VideoLinkBot

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Reddit bot that posts a comment with all of the video links in a submission. Currently only supports YouTube.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dmarx/VideoLinkBot
• Owner: dmarx
• License: mit
• Created: 2013-01-30T07:12:20.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-05-12T17:51:08.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T16:43:15.502Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 251 KB
• Stars: 28
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 16
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        
VideoLinkBot

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Reddit bot that posts a comment with all of the links in a submission.

See the bot in action at: http://www.reddit.com/user/videolinkbot

A POLITE REQUEST

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Although I have licensed this code with a very permissive license, please

don't create a bot on reddit.com that serves the same function or nearly 

the same function as /u/VideoLinkBot. When I get tired of operating this bot

I will add a text file to that effect to this repository and will also post an

announcement retiring the bot to http://www.reddit.com/r/VideoLinkBot. Until then,

one link-aggregating bot should be more than enough. 

Getting Started

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To use this tool, start out by creating a file called "loginCredentials.txt" that 

contains your bot's reddit username on the first line and password on the second.

What can I say, I'm lazy. I'll add support for passing the user/pass via the commandline

in the future, but right now this is the easiet way to use the bot.

simplebot.py

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This is the main workhorse. This script contains the praw.Reddit instance used by the bot

and also contains the post_aggregate_links() function, which is the main function of the bot.

To mine videos out of all the comments in a reddit submission and post a comment listing them 

in a table, use simplebot.py like this:

        import simplebot.py as s

        s.login()

        s.post_aggregate_links('abc123')

where "abc123" is the reddit submission id.

simplemonitor.py

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This script is what according to most people makes this tool a proper "bot." Simplemonitor

keeps tabs on /r/all/comments looking for newly posted comments containing links to videos.

When simplemonitor finds such a comment, it directs simplebot to post_aggregate_links() for 

the submission that comment was posted in response to. 

As long as loginCredentials.txt exists, you should be able to just run:

        $ python simplemonitor.py