dankbot's Introduction

Dankbot

A Slack Bot that scrapes memes from subreddits and posts them to slack

Steps to run

Clone into directory

cd /opt
sudo mkdir dankbot && sudo chown <user>:<user> dankbot
git clone [email protected]:levi-rs/dankbot.git

Setup INI file

cd /opt/dankbot
cp dankbot/dankbot.ini.sample dankbot/dankbot.ini

Edit the INI file to fillin the missing token, username, and password fields:

(.venv35)➜  dankbot git:(master) ✗ cat dankbot/dankbot.ini.sample
[slack]
token: <put here>
channel: #random

[reddit]
subreddits: dankmemes, fishpost

[mysql]
username: <username>
password: <password>

Add an entry to your crontab:

Edit the crontab with your favorite editor

sudo vi /etc/crontab

And add an entry like so:

# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the 'crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow usernamecommand
17 *17* * *17root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6* * *25roottest -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report
/etc/cron.daily )
47 6* * 7roottest -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report
/etc/cron.weekly )
52 61 * *61roottest -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report
/etc/cron.monthly )
#
*/5 10-18 * * 1-5 root cd /opt/dankbot && python3 dankbot/cli.py

This will run dankbot once every 5 minutes, Monday to Friday, between 9 AM and 5 PM CST

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