redditbots

A collection of reddit bots.

• nbabot

  • Scrapes comments from r/nba that mentions players or teams and uploads them to a DB for analysis on popularity.

• talkbot

  • Replies to !nietzschetalk with something that sounds like a Nietzsche quote, but is actually generated by OpenAI's GPT-3.
  • Replies to !trumptalk with a quote from a Markov chain based on Trump speeches.

• pfcbot

  • Looks for posts and comments with the term software engineer in r/PersonalFinanceCanada, and sends a text of the comment with a link to it.

TODO

• Look into aspect-based sentiment analysis to determine player sentiment in r/nba.

  from vaderSentiment.vaderSentiment import SentimentIntensityAnalyzer
  vs = analyzer.polarity_scores(comment.body)
  print(str(vs))
  

  is not accurate enough.

Stack

• Hosted on Heroku.
• Uses PostgreSQL for storing r/nba comments.
• Uses Twilio for sending texts.

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To run the backend:

• Must set required environment variables (see env.sh).
• Must have a PostgreSQL database with the schema in setup.sql.
• Must have Python 3 installed (currently using 3.10.5).

$ source env.sh
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python wsgi.py