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Configuring bots

For all bots developed here, you must fill out fields USERNAME, PASSWORD, CLIENT_ID, and CLIENT_SECRET.

####To get the CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET settings:

  1. Go here

  2. Fill it out like this.

  3. The values should then appear like this.

Bot coding practices

  • Using the get_access_token() and get_praw() functions which I use all the time (as opposed to the popular OAuth2Util) allows bot code to be run automatically, even in environments without a GUI/X.

  • A good way for a bot to identify comments it made for a specific reason is to have the comments prefaced with a markdown comment. E.g.:

      [NO_LOCATION]:#
  Please enter a location into the body of your post.

This allows a bot to know what it has and hasn't commented on and for what reasons, and is much cleaner than keeping a text file or, even worse, a global list within memory.