Written entirely in Python 3, this bot will pull comments from the subreddit /r/GuildWars2, check if they contain given alert words, and then respond with data taken from the GW2Spidy API. For example, if one were to comment !gemprice 500 the bot will reply with the current buying price of 500 gems, the current selling price of gems 500, and the cost to buy 500 gems with USD within the game of Guild Wars 2. The sell/buy price returned in the reply are taken from the GW2Spidy API, which is pulled from the popular website GW2Spidy.
You can view the current buy and sell prices of gems on the GW2Spidy website here.
- Comments that have been replied to have their IDs stored in the
replyIDs.txtfile, so that the bot will not reply twice to a comment containing a certain keyword, even after a restart. - A quantity limit makes sure that requests cannot be made with the quantity being over 9999. In this case, the quantity is just set to 9999.
- If no quantity is set, or non-numeric numbers are present after "!gemprice", the bot will simply show the data for a quantity of 100 gems.
- Anti-crash code to ensure that the bot will not crash if GW2Spidy is down, or Reddit is down. This allows for the bot to be run on some external machine without worrying about crashes.
- Easy to modify and lightweight. Can be used as a general reply bot for Reddit.
Here a user posted a comment containing the alert words !gemprice 800 and the bot responded accordingly:
- PRAW: The Python Reddit API Wrapper
- A Python 3 wrapper for the GW2Spidy API. In this case, you can use my wrapper, pygw2spidy. Just include it in the project folder.
GemBot is configured to parse the subreddit /r/test, to change it to your desired subreddit simply change the line with operatingSubreddit = "test" to whichever subreddit you desire.