The point of this project is to create a bot that will generate a game discussion thread that contains live linescore and boxscore, post it in the correct subreddit for that team, and keep it updated throughout the game.
Version 1.0 was written in a mix of Python and Java, and has been completely ported to Python for v2.0 and v3.0 (this version).
Go to reddit.com’s app page, click on the “are you a developer? create an app” button. Fill out the name, description and about url. Name must be filled out, but the rest doesn’t. Write whatever you please. For redirect uri set it to http://127.0.0.1:8080. All four variables can be changed later.
Copy sample_settings.json to the src folder and rename it to settings.json. Fill in the CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET, and REDIRECT_URI fields in the settings.json file and save.
Run the script. Your browser will open. Click allow on the displayed web page.
Enter the code from the URL into the console and the access information will be printed. This includes the final bit of info you need, the refresh token.
Fill in the REFRESH_TOKEN field in the settings.json file and save.
To use the default settings, copy sample_settings.json into src/settings.json.
BOT_TIME_ZONE - time zone of the computer running the bot, uncomment the line that you want to use
TIME_ZONE - time zone of the team. uncomment the line that you want to use
POST_TIME - bot posts the thread POST_TIME hours before the game
SUBREDDIT - subreddit that you want the threads posted to
TEAM_CODE - three letter code that represents team, look this up
OFFDAY_THREAD - do you want an offday discussion thread?
PREGAME_THREAD - do you want a pre game thread?
POST_GAME_THREAD - do you want a post game thread?
SUGGESTED_SORT - what do you want the suggested sort to be? ("confidence", "top", "new", "controversial", "old", "random", "qa", "")
STICKY - do you want the thread stickied? (mod only)
MESSAGE - send submission shortlink to /u/baseballbot
INBOXREPLIES - do you want to receive thread replies in the bot's inbox?
OFFDAY_THREAD_SETTINGS - what to include in the offday threads
PRE_THREAD_SETTINGS - what to include in the pregame threads
THREAD_SETTINGS - what to include in game threads, example footer: "Remember to sort by new to keep up!"
POST_THREAD_SETTINGS - what to include in postgame threads, example footer: "Remember to sort by new to keep up!"
If something doesn't seem right, feel free to message me or post it as a bug here.
This was written in Python 2.7, so beware if you are running Python 3 or above that it may not work correctly. Also make sure you install praw and simplejson before running!
Modules being used:
praw v5.0.1 - interfacing reddit
simplejson - JSON parsing
urllib2 - pulling data from MLB servers
ElementTree - XML parsing