/PlayStoreLinks_Bot

A reddit bot that links to apps when you ask him.

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

##PlayStoreLinks__Bot

A Reddit bot that links to Android Apps from the Play Store when a user asks to do it.

####What's included

  • LinkMeBot.py, the main program
  • App.py, a class that the bot uses to save data
  • Config.py, a simple and easy to understand configuration file
  • Test.py, a simple test to see if the Play Store parsing works.
  • LICENSE, the license that this project is released under (MIT)
  • README, this file

####What you need to know before editing this bot / running it on your local machine

The bot was written on a Linux-Fedora machine with Python 2.7.5

The bot uses the following extra libraries avaible to install via pip:

  • praw, to interface with reddit
  • BeautifulSoup, to parse HTML
  • requests, to get web pages

You need to set a valid username and password in the config file Also in the config file you need to set the subreddits where the bot searches for comments

####How to use it

On the server I use the bot is set to run every two minutes using a cronjob If you want to test the code I suggest you to post a comment in a subreddit and then run the bot

####Info / Reddit-related questions / See the bot in action

http://www.reddit.com/r/cris9696

Feel free to make any post you want to test it.

####TODO

A database where I save the apps already searched to avoid as many web requests to the play store as possible

####Want to help or want help?

  • If you want to help please feel free to do it.

  • If you need help please fell free to ask me.

  • If you find any bug or exploit please tell me: I will try to fix them or if you want you can fix them and I will include your changes in the project Subimited linkme request with 10 apps and bot thinks that i requested more than 10 apps

  • If you find a way to improve the bot please share it with everybody.

####LICENSE

MIT License