/groompbot

OUT OF DATE. Does not support the YouTube v3 API.

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Groompbot

Groompbot: A bot that posts new videos from YouTube to a subreddit

Built by AndrewNeo to post Game Grumps videos to the /r/gamegrumps subreddit. It should work fine for other YouTube channels and subreddits.

Usage

It's set up to be run by a cronfile, probably every minute or so at most.

Configuration

Configuration for the bot is set up in the settings.json file. The configuration file (which should be copied from settings.json.default) should contain the reddit bot username, password, the subreddit to post to, an approperate useragent, and the YouTube account to read from.

Dependencies

Groompbot depends on the following external libraries:

  • praw - Reddit library
  • gdata - Google Data API

License

Groompbot is free to use under the MIT License.