crunchy-bot 4.0.1

Crunchyroll Guest Pass Publisher for Reddit

CrunchyBot

Description:

This is a simple bot/script I made to publish my CrunchyRoll Guest Passes to Reddit. It uses Selenium and Chromedriver to extract the valid guest passes from CrunchyRoll and PRAW to publish it /r/Crunchyroll's weekly Megathread. This is not a bot made to run indefinitely; however, it can be altered to do so if one so desired. It was intended for use in conjunction with a task scheduler/cronjob to check once every month (or four if you wish to publish them in sets before guest passes expire) for new guest passes.

Changes:

Due to how the PRAW library has changed, all users now must create a reddit script app. As such, the data file now must include additional data. See below for a quick guide on how to set this up.

Setting Up Reddit Account:

1. Log on to the bot account.
2. Go the bot account's preferences from the upper-right corner.
3. Click the apps tab.
4. Click the create another app. - The button test may appear differently if you have no apps setup.
5. In the prompts, ensure that the script radio button is toggled and redirected uri is is set to http://localhost:8080. The other fields can be filled with whatever you want.
6. Click create app button when done.
7. You should now see the app created. Right below the name and below personal use script will be your client_id. Within the box, to the right of the word secret, is your client_secret.

Requirement:

• Selenium
• Chrome
• PRAW 6.1.0+
• Python 3.5+

Prerequisites:

You will need to have Chrome installed on your system at its default installation path. This is due to the chromedriver working with your Chrome installation to retrieve Crunchyroll Guest Pass.

Note As of 4.0.0, chromedriver will not be provided. Please refer to link on setting up

If you would rather use bring in chromedriver yourself, the version of chromedriver that has been verified to work is 2.45. Replace the chromedriver under the bin/ directory.

With Pipenv

Assuming you have pipenv installed on your system, run the following within the repo:

$ pipenv --three

This will setup a virtual environment for Crunchybot to work in without interferring your other python projects.

With pipenv initialized, run:

$ pipenv install

This will use the Pipfile and Pipfile.lock to fetch and verify dependencies.

Without Pipenv

Install PRAW and Selenium by running the following command:

 $ pip install -r requirements.txt

The other requirements are included in the bin directory of the project.

How to Use:

1. Clone the project

      git clone https://github.com/lamdaV/CrunchyBot.git
   

2. Navigate to where you clone the repository

       cd CrunchyBot
   

3. Update the templated botData.json with your information.
4. Run

       pipenv run python src/CrunchyBot.py [--debug/-d] /path/to/botData.json
       // or
       python src/CrunchyBot.py [--debug/-d] /path/to/botData.json
   

Automating:

Add the Python script to the Windows Task Scheduler with monthly frequency. Here is a link to setup the Task Scheduler.