YouComment

A bot for comparing top-level youtube comments and reddit comments for a reddit post that centers around a youtube link.

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Usage
3. Developing
   • Python/Git set up
4. Configuration
   • Set up API Access (CRUCIAL)
5. Meet the Bot
6. Contributing
7. File Descriptions
8. Changelog
9. License

Installation

Python and Git set up

1. Clone the Repository:

git clone https://github.com/AndresMWeber/youcomment.git

2. Create a virtual environment for the bot to run in

python3 -m venv venv --no-site-packages

3. Activate the virtual env

source venv/bin/activate

4. Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

Set up API Access

• Create a Reddit App as script
• Obtain a Youtube API Key: (tutorial)
• Set the following environment variables on | mac | windows | linux |:

Key	Description
YC_REDDIT_CLIENT_ID	The generated field under "personal use script"
YC_REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET	The generated Secret field.
YC_REDDIT_USER	The username to your reddit bot.
YC_REDDIT_PASS	The password to your reddit bot.
YC_YOUTUBE_API_KEY	The API Key you generated for Youtube.

• WARNING: without these environment variables set, the program will not function.

Usage

You have the option of running the bot in a few different ways:

Python

from youcomment.bot import YouCompareBot
bot = YouCompareBot()
bot.run()

import youcomment.bot

CLI

$ youcomment

Developing

You can run tests using a couple options while within the top git repo folder:

• python setup.py test
• python -m unittest discover

Meet the Bot

My current test subreddit it is active in is here:

https://reddit.com/r/you_comment_bot

Feel free to make a new post if you want to test the bot

Contributing

• If you want to help please feel free to do it.
• If you need help please fell free to ask me.
• If you find any bug or exploit please tell me: I will try to fix them or if you want you can fix them and I will include your changes in the project.
• If you find a way to improve the bot, please share it with everybody.

File Descriptions

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File	Description
youcomment/	A module for comparing reddit and youtube top-level comments
youcomment/bot.py	The actual bot
youcomment/reddit.py	The handler for all reddit api commands
youcomment/youtube.py	The handler for all youtube api commands
youcomment/database.py	The database manager file
youcomment/config.py	The configuration file
youcomment/version.py	Contains only the project version number
youcomment/data/template.md	The message template
tests/	Tests
.circleci/config.yml	CircleCI configuration file

Version History

Changelog

License

MIT License