IMPORTANT: This is a legacy codebase for MIB. The deployment of this version has been discontinued since October 2019. Final versions can be submitted but this projects will be or is archived. Any regarding this, contact @thecsw
Welcome to the source code repository of /u/MemeInvestor_bot. This bot has been developed exclusively for /r/MemeEconomy. It allows users to create investment accounts with fictional MemeCoins, invest those MemeCoins in specific memes, and automatically evaluate meme performance resulting in positive or negative returns.
We welcome contributions from the public! If you'd like to help improve the bot, please fork our project and feel free to tackle any Issues. We also welcome feedback in the form of new issues, so feel free to create new ones for discussion.
The bot is implemented as a set of loosely-connected microservices written in Python and deployed with Docker. Each component handles a single job, such as:
The following instructions will get a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.
In order to run the bot, you'll need to install Docker. You may also need to generate Reddit API credentials for the bot (see below).
After installing the prerequisites and cloning the project, you'll need to configure
the bot. To do so, copy the .env.example file to .env and open it in the editor
of your choice:
git clone https://github.com/MemeInvestor/memeinvestor_bot.git
cd memeinvestor_bot
cp .env.example .env
nano .envFollow the instructions in .env to configure your test deployment. The instructions
include steps for generating Reddit bot credentials, which are necessary for clients
to fully access the Reddit API.
Once you've finished, save .env and exit. You're now ready to deploy the bot locally.
From the root of the project directory, use docker-compose build to build all the
microservices described above. Then use docker-compose up -d to launch them. This
will spawn an empty investors database, spin up agents to monitor Reddit, and begin
serving the informational website.
You should be able to view the website at http://localhost:2015. By default the stats will be
boring (no investors and no investments) but you can interact with your test bot on Reddit to
populate the database. Alternatively you can manually set up investor accounts by modifying the
database with Python or a database manager like adminer.
With the setup dockerized environment should work autonomously and non-stop. However, I would highly
recommend to make regular database backups with our backup.sh script. The best way to do it is to
install a cron job and make it run daily.
Here is the cron job that is running on our production server with crontab
0 0 * * * /path/to/memeinvestor_bot/backup.sh /path/to/memeinvestor_bot/backupsThis job will be triggered every day at exactly 0 minutes and 0 hours.
Important thing is how you update the production database with the git repository. Here is the general way to do it.
git pull
docker-compose build
docker-compose up -dIt pulls the git repository, please make sure that you have the origin remote pointing to https://github.com/MemeInvestor/memeinvestor_bot
After that it rebuilds all images and replaces the currently running ones with the freshly built. All the database
data and other running containers' data will be safe in docker volumes. Do not forget to get rid of orphan images by docker image prune
And after that you can start tailing logs to see if everything is working smoothly with docker-compose logs -f --tail 10
Also, you can build individual modules by appending their alias to the docker-compose commands.
Warning! When you rebuild your containers all the logs are lost. If you want to save them and especially the HTTP logs to track the website's stats, please follow the steps below to update HTTP separately and you can just append all other containers' names to the build procedure above
docker logs memeinvestor_bot_http_1 | tee -a ./http.log
docker-compose build http
docker-compose up -d httpLogs are saved to http.log that you can visualize them with goaccess and our .goaccess.caddy.conf
goaccess -f ./http.log -p ~/.goaccess.caddy.conf -o html > /tmp/report.htmlFeel free to open the produced html file with any compatible browser. Even Netscape.
MemeInvestor_bot is a community-driven and community-supported project. We need you to keep it live and well. Thank you for all your support!
!active to deeplink to the user's comment. - timendemThis project is licensed under the The GNU General Public License (see the LICENSE file for details), it explains everything pretty well.