shoredata · July 13, 2018 20:56 · Nov 6, 2013 · Nov 6, 2013 · May 9, 2013 · May 9, 2013
diff --git a/LinkFixerClone.py b/LinkFixerClone.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import praw
+import praw # simple interface to the reddit API, also handles rate limiting of requests
 import re
 from collections import deque 
 from time import sleep

diff --git a/LinkFixerClone.py b/LinkFixerClone.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 r = praw.Reddit(USERAGENT)
 r.login(USERNAME,PASSWORD) # necessary if your bot will talk to people
 
-cache = deque(maxlen=200)
+cache = deque(maxlen=200) # To make sure we don't duplicate effort
 
 r_pat = re.compile(' r/[A-Za-z0-9]+')
 u_pat = re.compile(' u/[A-Za-z0-9]+')

diff --git a/LinkFixerClone.py b/LinkFixerClone.py
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@
 from collections import deque 
 from time import sleep
 
-USERNAME = "Your username here"
-PASSWORD = "Your password here"
+USERNAME  = "Your username here"
+PASSWORD  = "Your password here"
+USERAGENT = "Your useragent string here. It should include your /u/username as a courtesy to reddit"
 
-r = praw.Reddit('A linkfixerbot clone (because the author was being mean and not sharing their source) by /u/shaggorama')
+r = praw.Reddit(USERAGENT)
 r.login(USERNAME,PASSWORD) # necessary if your bot will talk to people
 
 cache = deque(maxlen=200)

diff --git a/LinkFixerClone.py b/LinkFixerClone.py
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 from collections import deque 
 from time import sleep
 
-USERNAME = 'your username here'
-PASSOWRD = 'your password here'
+USERNAME = "Your username here"
+PASSWORD = "Your password here"
 
 r = praw.Reddit('A linkfixerbot clone (because the author was being mean and not sharing their source) by /u/shaggorama')
 r.login(USERNAME,PASSWORD) # necessary if your bot will talk to people
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def check_condition(comment):
 def bot_action(c, links):
     text = ''
     for link in links:
-        text += "/" + link + "\n"
+        text += "/" + link[1:] + "\n"
     print c.author.name, c.subreddit.display_name, c.submission.title
     print text
     c.reply(text)

diff --git a/LinkFixerClone.py b/LinkFixerClone.py
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
 
 cache = deque(maxlen=200)
 
-r_pat = re.compile('r/[A-Za-z0-9]+')
-u_pat = re.compile('u/[A-Za-z0-9]+')
+r_pat = re.compile(' r/[A-Za-z0-9]+')
+u_pat = re.compile(' u/[A-Za-z0-9]+')
 
 def check_condition(comment):
     text = comment.body    

diff --git a/LinkFixerClone.py b/LinkFixerClone.py
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import praw
+import re
+from collections import deque 
+from time import sleep
+
+USERNAME = 'your username here'
+PASSOWRD = 'your password here'
+
+r = praw.Reddit('A linkfixerbot clone (because the author was being mean and not sharing their source) by /u/shaggorama')
+r.login(USERNAME,PASSWORD) # necessary if your bot will talk to people
+
+cache = deque(maxlen=200)
+
+r_pat = re.compile('r/[A-Za-z0-9]+')
+u_pat = re.compile('u/[A-Za-z0-9]+')
+
+def check_condition(comment):
+    text = comment.body    
+    broken = set(re.findall(r_pat, text))
+    broken.union( set(re.findall(u_pat, text)) )
+    condition = False
+    if broken:
+        condition = True
+    return condition, broken
+
+def bot_action(c, links):
+    text = ''
+    for link in links:
+        text += "/" + link + "\n"
+    print c.author.name, c.subreddit.display_name, c.submission.title
+    print text
+    c.reply(text)
+
+running = True
+while running:    
+    all = r.get_all_comments(limit = None, url_data = {'limit':100})
+    for c in all:
+        if c.id in cache:
+            break
+        cache.append(c.id)
+        bot_condition_met, parsed = check_condition(c)
+        if bot_condition_met:
+            try:
+                bot_action(c, parsed)
+
+            except KeyboardInterrupt:
+                running = False
+            except praw.errors.APIException, e:
+                print "[ERROR]:", e
+                print "sleeping 30 sec"
+                sleep(30)                
+            except Exception, e: # In reality you don't want to just catch everything like this, but this is toy code.
+                print "[ERROR]:", e
+                print "blindly handling error"
+                continue