redditbot.py

#!/usr/bin/python
"""This reddit bot is designed to automatically reply to every post visible
in /r/ShadowBanned. Thereby helping posters know that theye are not shadow
banned."""
import os
import re
import time
import praw


#This should pull your setting from the [bot1] section of your praw.ini
#NOTE: Currently cannot get praw.ini to work
#reddit = praw.Reddit("bot1")

#Now it should include your refresh token which should let us post from the bot.
#If you've no idea what's going on here refer to the OAuth subdirectory,
#and the oauth*.py steps for PRAW and Reddit authentication.
reddit = praw.Reddit(
    username="",
    client_id="",
    client_secret="",
    refresh_token="",
    redirect_uri="http://localhost:8080",
    user_agent="",
)

#This is the message which will be submitted by the bot as a reply
BOT_MESSAGE = ("Beep, boop. This bot can read your post. "
               "Which ultimately means you're NOT shadow banned."
               "This bot works by replying to posts it can **see**. If you're "
               "shadow banned, it WILL NOT reply to your post until you're unbanned. "
               "Be aware, If you have low karma it may impact you posting "
               "in other places. What is considered *low* varies by subreddit."
               " Again, this action was performed by a bot. "
               "If you reply to this message you may not get a response. "
               " Sometimes this bot breaks! So be patient, it may take up to a day to reply.")

#This is the time to sleep, in seconds, between while-loop cycles
SLEEP_TIME = 300 #300 is 5 minutes

subreddit = reddit.subreddit("ShadowBanned")

try:
    while True:
        print("ShadowBanBot running - press [CTRL]-C to Exit")

        # Thanks to https://github.com/shantnu for the majority of this code
        # Check if a post_reply_history.txt file exists
        # If not, make it, If yes filter out previously replied to posts
        if not os.path.isfile("post_reply_history.txt"):
            post_reply_history = []
        else:
            # Read the file into a list and remove any empty values
            with open("post_reply_history.txt", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
                post_reply_history = f.read()
                post_reply_history = post_reply_history.split("\n")
                post_reply_history = list(filter(None, post_reply_history))

        for submission in subreddit.new(limit=29):
            # If we haven't replied to this post before
            if submission.id not in post_reply_history:

                # Do a case insensitive search for any_char + anything_repeated
                if re.search(".?", submission.title, re.IGNORECASE):
                    # Reply to the post
                    submission.reply(BOT_MESSAGE)
                    print("Bot replying to : ", submission.title)

                    # Store the current id into our list
                    post_reply_history.append(submission.id)

        # Write our updated list back to the file
        with open("post_reply_history.txt", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
            for post_id in post_reply_history:
                f.write(post_id + "\n")

        #Wait between loops
        time.sleep(SLEEP_TIME)
except:
    print("ShadowBanBot had an exception, sleeping", SLEEP_TIME, "seconds - press [CTRL]-C to Exit")