• I don't want to run the bot on my own

• I want to run the bot on my own

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I don't want to run my own

• Send a private message to DealExpiredBot with the name of your community.
• If accepted, invite DealExpiredBot to be a moderator of your community with the following permissions:
  1. Flair
  2. Wiki

Setting up your wiki page

• The rest of the configuration variables the bot pulls from your wiki.
• Create a new wiki page on your subreddit called "botconfig"
• The wiki page should come up if yo use the below link for your sub

https:///www.reddit.com/r/sub/wiki/botconfig

PICK ONE

• Command route
• Automatic time route

using a command

• Set your flair
• The command will be a comment that the bot looks for in order to determine if post needs to be reflaired or not.

FLAIR=Expired

COMMAND=!expired

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using-time

• Set your flair
• Give a number before posts need to be reflaired to your FLAIR variable(In my case its 1 day before reflairing old posts)

FLAIR=Expired

DAYS_BEFORE_FLAIRING=1

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build my own

• Getting started
  • Installing Python
  • Installing requirements
  • Setting your config
    • username and password
    • secret and client_id
    • delay
    • flair
    • wiki-config
    • Putting it all together
• Running your script
• Bug tracking
• Contact me

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Installing Script

• Download the zip file for this repo.
• Extract the contents to your desktop.

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Installing Python

• Download Python 3.7
• Add Python to Path by selecting box during installation or manually adding to Path
• Open up Command Prompt and type "python", it should tell you the version if its installed correctly.

Python 3.7.3 (v3.7.3:ef4ec6ed12, Mar 25 2019, 21:26:53) [MSC v.1916 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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Installing requirements

• Open up the command prompt. You may type cmd or command prompt in the windows search bar. Your command prompt should look like below

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.959]
(c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\AkitotheExiled>

• Now lets navigate to our directory where we downloaded the script. In the command prompt, type, cd desktop/SourceRequestBot-master Now your command prompt should look like

C:\Users\AkitotheExiled\Desktop\SourceRequestBot-master>

• Installing requirements.txt so our script can be ran. In the command prompt, type python pip install requirements.txt. Press enter and wait for the command to finish.

C:\Users\AkitotheExiled\Desktop\SourceRequestBot-master>python pip install requirements.txt

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Setting your config

username and password

• Enter your username and password for the account you will be using for the program

USER= user123
PASSWORD= myultrasecretpassword

Secret and Client_ID

• Go to reddit.com and login to your account. Now select your account name in the top right and select user settings
• Select Privacy & Security
• At the very bottom, select Manage third-party app authorization
• At the very bottom again, select create another app..
• In the name, type "DealExpiredBot by ScoopJr"
• Select the radio button: script
• In description, type "Flairs older posts by time or command"
• For about url, type "http://localhost"
• For redirect url, type "http://localhost"
• Select create app

Secret

• look next to the text, "Secret", and copy this text down somewhere

SECRET= daklfanlfkanl392r29neorfjs

Client_ID

• Look at DealExpiredBot by ScoopJr, and right under Personal Use Script, is our client_id
• Copy the text and save it somewhere

CLIENT_ID= ddMaksjJsuyeb

Delay

• The time in seconds between full runs. One full run is a full pass through your subreddit.

DELAY = 30

Wiki-config

• The rest of the configuration variables the bot pulls from your wiki.
• Create a new wiki page on your subreddit called "botconfig"
• The wiki page should come up if yo use the below link for your sub

https:///www.reddit.com/r/sub/wiki/botconfig

Date/Time

• Set your flair
• Give a number before posts need to be reflaired to your FLAIR variable(In my case its 1 day before reflairing old posts)

FLAIR=Expired

DAYS_BEFORE_FLAIRING=1

Command

• Set your flair
• The command will be a comment that the bot looks for in order to determine if post needs to be reflaired or not.

FLAIR=Expired

COMMAND=!expired

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Putting it together

• On your desktop, navigate to the extracted folder, DealExpiredBot-master and open it.
• Open config.ini and it should look something like this.
• Enter in your information from before and select save!

It should now look like this!

[main]
USER =user123
PASSWORD=myultrasecretpassword
CLIENT_ID=ddMaksjJsuyeb
SECRET=daklfanlfkanl392r29neorfjs
SUBREDDIT=mysubredditexample
DELAY=30

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Running your script

• Make sure your account is a moderator in the subreddit you will be running in!!
• Time to run your script! In the command prompt, type, python dealexpiredbot.py. Your command prompt should match the below text

C:\Users\AkitotheExiled\Desktop\DealExpiredBot-master>python dealexpiredbot.py

• Press the enter key on your keyboard. The script should be running now :)

Contributing

Issue Tracker: https://github.com/AkitotheExiled/DealExpiredBot/issues

Contact

https://www.reddit.com/user/ScoopJr