Only ImGur album or gallery links are valid urls at the moment.
An album image must be less than 500kB each in size (reddit limitations).
- Reddit account (oauth)
- Imgur account (ouath)
- Python 3 (locally or set up on a server; I'm using Heroku as an example server)
- Pip (to install the python modules in
requirements.txt). Heroku does this automatically. - pgAdmin to create and connect to databases locally and remotely (on Heroku) http://www.pgadmin.org/
- Heroku host (free tier) with Postgres database installed. If you want to run locally, you won't need
Procfile - Create a database using psycopg2 (
heroku run python) or pgAdmin. - Configure your Reddit, Imgur, and Postgres DB credentials by entering them into
schedule.cfg(no need to enter Reddit password if using oauth) - Optional: copy the files to a Dropbox folder and deploy by syncing it with Heroku.
- Set up the wiki page on reddit for your bot http://reddit.com/r/YOURSUBREDIT/wiki/YOURBOT-schedule and schedule events (for more on using
rrule, see https://labix.org/python-dateutil) - After scheduling using the YAML syntax (see https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoModerator/comments/1z7rlu/-/cfrzuxb)
- Send a message to your bot to
scheduleusing your subreddit in the subject place - Run the
banner.pyscript (using a task scheduler on your PC, cron, or Heroku scheduler) - See a live example on http://reddit.com/r/Blackfellas/wiki/blackfellasbot-schedule