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[x1xvictorx1x]

I honestly dont know how to run it i downloaded the folder placed it in the desktop and then tryed running that command and get this message "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\python.exe: can't open file 'snap_bot/main.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory PS C:\Users\User"

[alexloney]

It requires a little setup to run, I'll try to go into as much detail as I can here to describe the process.

1. Clone the repository

   > git clone https://github.com/alexloney/reddit_marvel_snap_card_bot.git
   Cloning into 'reddit_marvel_snap_card_bot'...
   remote: Enumerating objects: 313, done.
   remote: Counting objects: 100% (95/95), done.
   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (56/56), done.
   remote: Total 313 (delta 63), reused 54 (delta 39), pack-reused 218
   Receiving objects: 100% (313/313), 77.81 KiB | 12.97 MiB/s, done.
   Resolving deltas: 100% (161/161), done.

2. Change into the newly created directory

   > cd reddit_marvel_snap_card_bot

3. Register your bot with Reddit which may be done at this URL. You'll need to "Create an app" and fill out the information. It should be a "script" and the "redirect uri" is irrelevant for this bot, so you could have that be anything, such as "https://example.com". Save the details (client_id and client_secret) as you'll need them later.
4. Copy the config.json.sample file to config.json

   > copy config.json.sample config.json
       1 file(s) copied.

5. Fill out the details in config.json. The result should look something like this:

   {
   "client_id": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
   "client_secret": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
   "user_agent": "user_agent_string",
   "username": "username",
   "password": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
   }

6. Finally, run the program on the subreddit you would like to run it

   python snap_bot\main.py --config-file config.json --subreddit <subreddit>

   You should then see output similar to the following

   2024-05-07 09:52:18,582 INFO     Starting Reddit bot
   2024-05-07 09:52:18,584 INFO     Subreddit: <subreddit>
   2024-05-07 09:52:18,584 INFO     Config File:
   2024-05-07 09:52:18,584 INFO     DB Update Timeout: 86400
   2024-05-07 09:52:18,584 INFO     Max Fuzzing Distance: 2
   2024-05-07 09:52:18,584 INFO     Exact Match Threshold: 3
   2024-05-07 09:52:18,585 INFO     Dry Run: False
   2024-05-07 09:52:18,585 INFO     Debug: False
   2024-05-07 09:52:18,585 INFO     Client ID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   2024-05-07 09:52:18,585 INFO     User Agent: user_agent_string
   2024-05-07 09:52:18,585 INFO     Reddit Username: username
   2024-05-07 09:52:18,585 INFO     Loading card lookup database
   2024-05-07 09:52:19,880 INFO     Next DB update in 86400s
   2024-05-07 09:52:19,880 INFO     Establishing Reddit connection (<subreddit>)
   2024-05-07 09:52:19,880 INFO     Using supplied id/secret/agent/user/pass
   2024-05-07 09:52:19,881 INFO     Reddit connection established

I have a few final notes for you:

• Above I provided one way to provide the required parameters client_secret, client_id, user_agent, username, and password. There are two other ways to provide them. You may provide them from command-line arguments (e.g. --client_id <id>, --client_secret <secret>, etc) or you may provide them via environment variables. I personally find it easiest to store them in a config.json file to provide, so that is the example above I gave
• There are quite a few additional configurable arguments from command-line that may be specified, you can run --help to see them all
• This is a bot that runs on Reddit and will automatically submit replies. As such, to prevent it from being banned, you will need to ensure that the mods of the subreddit you're running it on have authorized it as an authorized submitter. Otherwise it'll be banned pretty quickly by Reddit. So work with your moderators to ensure that it is not banned
• Related to the above point, I created a test subreddit that I owned/modded to test the development of the bot as well as I test any/all changes with before I deploy it live to /r/MarvelSnap. I suggest you do a similar thing to test the bots functionality before going live with however you plan on using this
• With all of the above covered, that's how to do a manual test/run of the program. My actual recommended version for running it is through Docker (see these instructions). Docker provides a consistent deployment environment to deploy and run the application in, so you are not dealing with system dependencies or issues.

Finally, if you're simply wanting this bot to run on your subreddit, you could also let me know what subreddit you would like for it to run on and I could set up my deployment to also handle that subreddit.