firstbot
A Reddit Crawler
By: Adam Hodges
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firstbot was an idea that I came up with while browsing reddit.com in my free time.
Authors submit "rage comics" to a particular section of reddit, and other users rate them.
Many first timers add a "first tag", [first], to the title of their comic as a plea for mercy and a higher rating.
I have always wondered how many people tag their comics as [first] even after their first comic. No one ever checks.
While it's doubtful that someone would actually get a measurably higher rating from the abuse of a [first] tag, I decided it would make a cool project.
firstbot is a reddit crawler that identifies and reprimands abusers of the [first] tag in rage comic submissions.
Execution
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To run firstbot:
python firstbot.py
Dependencies
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firstbot was written using Python 2.7.2 and SQLite 3.7.7.
Thanks
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I would like to give the author of another reddit bot, originalfinder, a shoutout for inspiring me!