• Getting started
  • Installing Python
  • Installing requirements
  • Setting your config
    • username and password
    • secret and client_id
    • delay
    • subreddit
    • flair
    • wait timer
    • removal reason
    • 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 "SourceRequestBot by ScoopJr"
• Select the radio button: script
• In description, type "Request sources from specific flaired posts on my subreddit."
• 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 SourceRequestBot 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 = 60

Subreddit

• The subreddit you will be running the program in!

mysubredditexample

Flair

• The flair the bot will search for when looking for posts that need sources

FLAIR= Fan Art

Recheck_wait

• The time in minutes to wait before checking up on the post.

RECHECK_WAIT= 10

Removal_reason

• The reason added to the post when it gets removed for OP not providing a source.

REMOVAL_REASON= Your post was removed because you failed to provide a source!

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Putting it together

• On your desktop, navigate to the extracted folder, SourceRequestBot-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
DELAY=60
SUBREDDIT=mysubredditexample
FLAIR=Fan Art
RECHECK_WAIT=10
REMOVAL_REASON=Your post was removed because you failed to provide a source!

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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 sourceordelete.py. Your command prompt should match the below text

C:\Users\AkitotheExiled\Desktop\SourceRequestBot-master>python sourceordelete.py

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

Contributing

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

Contact

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