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At present any UTF-8 characters saved to this file break.
Should be fairly straightforward using:

import codecs

file = codecs.open("lol", "w", "utf-8")
file.write(u'\ufeff')
file.close()

taken from this SO answer.

Note: Remember to use utf-8-sig

Or better yet, create a back-end and store the entries in a database of some kind.

I think this should be as simple as wrapping the main praw execution with a try/except.

I believe we can retrieve all of the necessary data for determining the countdown using GiantBomb's API, which gives release dates as a part of their game API.

See:

http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/api-developers-3017/quick-start-guide-to-using-the-api-1427959/#13

http://www.giantbomb.com/api/

I think a nice new feature would be if a user could click on an "update" link in each comment which would signal the bot to update the specified comment with either an updated countdown, or a new countdown if the game was not previously recognised.

Use case:

1. User posts !ReleaseDate request
2. Bot replies to !ReleaseDate request with necessary reply
3. (Another) user clicks Update link which sends a PM to the bot account
4. Bot receives PM and adds comment to a queue of comments to update
5. Comment is updated with current countdown

Considerations

• There should be a limit on how frequently comments can be updated. (5 minutes?)
• I need to investigate to see if PRAW can correctly pick up PMs and edit posts
• Part of this task should probably include a better queueing mechanism to allow for concurrent comment parsing, editing & picking up any new PMs

Are there any APIs that exist at present that can provide this?

If not, can we create one?

At the moment the majority of the data I'm getting is from the following links:

• http://uk.ign.com/wikis/e3/Games_at_E3_2015
• http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/06/01/2015-video-game-release-schedule.aspx

It would be nice to automate this process (or at least the insertion into the script / database) -

See issue #2

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Write some garb about how to clone and get this running should someone wish to.