RedditWallpaperBot

A Bot for Reddit that gets top Hot sorted picture from a given Subreddit and sets it as background.

Supported OS & Environments

Windows, Mac and Linux(Ubuntu, Linux Mint)

Prerequisite

• Must have python3.6+ installed.

Installation:

• Download the repository by clicking the green "Clone or download" button on the top-right of the repository's main page, then click on "Download ZIP"
  

• Extract folder to desired location

• With the Reddit account that the bot will use go to Preferences -> Apps and create an app. Pick any name, choose script, and set the redirect url to http://localhost. Description and about url can be blank.

i.e:

• In etc/config.ini add your client id and client secret from the app you just created. Client id is the id underneath the name of the app. Client secret is labeled.

• Choose one of the following methods:

(Installing in closed environment) Recommended:

• Install pipenv through pip.
  pip install pipenv

• Open the extracted folder in terminal and run pipenv install.
  cd RedditWallpaperBot-master && pipenv install

Or:

(Installing globally):

• Open the extracted folder in terminal and run:
  pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage:

Skip this step if you installed globally

• Open extracted folder and run:
  pipenv shell

• Run main.py.
  python main.py

Or:

• Open extracted folder and run main.py script directly by double clicking.

Usage as Library:

• Notes: If you want to import the bot functions, it by default uses sys.exit() to exit program once an error has been caught. You may want to use bot.raise_bot_exception(option=True) to raise BotExceptions instead that you can catch.

Acknowledgement:

https://github.com/Dextroz/Wallie for Mac support.