Bot adding reply comments with links to appropriate responses found on /r/dota2.
The bot replies only for the comments that are responses.
For example: "Selemene commands" will return a Luna response (like on the screenshot above).
- All the body text is transformed into lowercase
- Any punctuation is replaced with spaces
- Multiple spaces are trimmed to single space.
- If comment has blockquote, first blockquote is considered for matching.
- (If possible) Add hero flair in responses (Waiting on reddit to support this in reddit redesign).
/r/dota2 subreddit generates around 3.5k comments/day, peaking around 12.5k during December (stats via subbreditstats. Bot should be able to handle more than 15k comments/day(10 comments/minute) easily (Just an estimate, actual performance not yet tested).
Config variables needed to be set in environment for running the bot:
| Variable | Required? | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLIENT_ID | Required | None. | client_id generated by Reddit. |
| CLIENT_SECRET | Required | None. | secret generated by Reddit. |
| SUBREDDIT | Optional | dota2 |
Subreddit the bot is going to work on. |
| REDDIT_USERNAME | Required | None. | Username for the Reddit account being used. |
| REDDIT_PASSWORD | Required | None. | Password for the Reddit account being used. |
| CACHE_PROVIDER | Optional | memory |
Caching module to be used. Valid choices : redis, memory, db. |
| CACHE_URL | Optional | cache.json |
URL path to redis instance/database/file in memory. Based on CACHE_PROVIDER. |
| DATABASE_PROVIDER | Optional | sqlite |
DBMS to be used. Valid choices : sqlite, mysql, postgres |
| DATABASE_URL | Optional | bot.db |
URL to the database. |
| LOGGING_LEVEL | Optional | INFO |
Logging level. Valid choices : Logging levels |
Major revamp for the bot. Things that are new:
- Bot can reply to responses that are in blockquotes and ignore rest of comment.
- Added support for TI chat wheel sounds.
- Comment on post submission if title is a response.
Things updated:
- Support sqlite, MySQL and PostgreSQL dbs via Pony-ORM.
- Added caching for comment ids (redis, db and in memory/file based).
- Revamped parsing of responses from wiki (now directly from the sources).
- Revamped parsing flair css and image directories from subreddit css.
- Better parsing for comments.
- Added better support for custom responses.
- Updated excluded responses.
- Updated docs.
- Updated tests.
- Now hero portraits (flairs) are added before the response
- The bot tries to match the hero response with the hero in the comment's author flair first
- Added a few Io and Phoenix responses
- Fixed random responses for the "Shitty wizard" line - now it's working properly
- Added special treatment for the comments related to "One of my favorites" response
- Moved from a dictionary for responses and a list for comment ids to databases
- Added random responses for the "Shitty wizard" line (needs testing)
- Added tests
- Code refactoring
- Added Travis CI and CodeClimate checking
- Code refactoring (renaming variables, deleting unnecessary methods, etc.)
- Response in the reply is now an exact quote of the original comment
- Added comments
- Bot is now adding the source of the response (e.g. hero name) to the comment (needs testing)
- Added Arc Warden responses
- File paths are now relative to the script file location (using os)
- Added dates to logging
- Logs are saved in respective files on the server
- Fixed a bug with adding same comment a few times in sticky threads that are on the subreddit for a long time (time-saving workaround)
- Change in the main loop of the script - much better efficiency (time)
- Changed reply comment formatting
- Removed keyword triggering as /r/dota2 community did not like it
- Added keywords that trigger the bot: "just do it", "beautiful", "from the ghastly eyrie", "sniper", "ppd", "leafeator", "ur/your brother"
- Code refactoring
- Fixed a bug created by 1.2 changes
- Changed submissions number in hot to 25
- Added more excluded responses
- Removed responses such as "thank you", hero names and item names (anti-spam)
- Accept comments with extra letters added for emphasis
- One word responses are no longer in the dictionary
- Replaced double spaces with single space
- Bot is now working with hot submissions
Basically MIT License, but if you use the code (learning or project purposes), you have to plant at least one tree at some future time.