dankbot 0.0.3

Slack bot for posting dank memes from Reddit

# Dankbot

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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 [e-mail]:DankCity/dankbot.git
```

### Setup INI file
```
cd /opt/dankbot
cp dankbot/dankbot.ini.sample dankbot/dankbot.ini
```

Edit the INI file to fill in 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, me_irl, 4chan

[imgur]
client_id: <client_id>
client_secret: <client Secret>

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

[misc]
include_nsfw: <boolean>
max_memes: 3
```

### Create and activate a virtual environment
```
cd /opt/dankbot
virtualenv --python=`which python3` env
source env/bin/activate
```

### Install the python package
```
cd /opt/dankbot
source env/bin/activate
pip install -e .
```

### Create logging folder
```
sudo mkdir /var/log/dankbot
sudo chown <user> /var/log/dankbot
```

### 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
*/5 09-17 * * 1-5 root cd /opt/dankbot && source env/bin/activate && dankbot .
```

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