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I've just found this bot script on Github. It is used to run an upvoting and downvoting bot on Reddit. However, the instruction in README.md file is too short and does not mention anything about how to run this bot. It says that I have to get PRAW and python google-api-client in order to run this bot. I already have PRAW installed on Python 3.6.2 (windows 8.1), but I don't know where to get python google-api-client and then what to do next to run this bot. I'm a newbie to Python.
Could somebody familiar with creating and running Reddit bots tell me what to do to run this bot script on Reddit? Thanks.
Keinsel
Posted 2017-10-26T09:23:17.670
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Did you use the term "python google-api-client" to look for information? For me that gets several Google developer hits like How to get started. The description of the bot already sounds like its probably not a welcome tool. As it is an automatic tool you will likely have to start reading the source in order to figure out how it works.
– Seth – 2017-10-26T10:19:17.853Thanks for your comment, Seth. I haven't searched for the term ''python google-api-client'' yet. Thanks for the suggestion. However, even if after getting the ''python google-api-client'' thing done, there are still a lot of works need to be done to run this bot. As a Python novice, I find these works quite difficult. Could you read the script and tell me what to do to run the bot ? The script got 10 starts on Github while other Reddit scripts usually get zero start, suggesting that this script would work effectively on Reddit. Therefore, I really want to learn how to use this script. – Keinsel – 2017-10-26T10:49:06.947
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You will have to learn python and start reading that code, it's just three files and Python is a (in comparison) rather easy language. A bot that uses throw away accounts and upvotes/downvotes a selection of specific users doesn't sound like something that's endorsed on reddit. Specifically the bottiquette requests that bots DO NOT vote (automatically).
– Seth – 2017-10-26T11:16:05.317Thanks for your comment. I know that bot is not endorsed on reddit. However, there are many reddit users with superior programming skills having created bots and other things to bully users that have no programming skills, and I'm actually one of the victims. I'm pretty much upset and frustrated about this. Therefore, I also want to learn how to use bot like those technical users. I will start reading the files. Could I ask you whenever I get stuck on understanding the code? – Keinsel – 2017-10-26T13:25:57.477
Yes, you could. But really? Just using bots yourself isn't going to be a solution. I guess it's limit to a sub so did you try to reach out to moderators or reddit staff if it's more general? Do you have an idea who's behind it? – Seth – 2017-10-26T16:30:52.223
No, I don't know – Keinsel – 2017-10-29T08:17:25.153