A script that takes information from a RSS Feed and submits it onto your subreddit of choice!
Recent Changes
| Date | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 8/4/22 | POST_DESC flag added | NEW |
| 8/4/22 | COMMENT_DESC flag added | NEW |
| 6/14/22 | PREFER_IMAGES flag added | NEW |
| 6/14/22 | DEVMODE flag added | NEW |
| 6/14/22 | Feed_type will be removed next update | NEW |
| 6/14/22 | Support added for submitting single images and gallerys from RSS Feeds | NEW |
| 6/14/22 | Reworked fetch/post logic. Recommended updates to delay as follows | NEW |
- Download the zip file for this repo.
- Extract the contents to your desktop.
- Download Python 3.7
- During installation - Select the checkbox Add Python to Path or manually adding to Path
- Open up Command Prompt and type "python", it should tell you the version if its installed correctly.
Python 3.7.3 (v3.7.3:ef4ec6ed12, Mar 25 2019, 21:26:53) [MSC v.1916 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
- Open up the command prompt. You may type cmd or command prompt in the windows search bar. Your command prompt should look like below
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.959]
(c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\AkitotheExiled>
- Now lets navigate to our directory where we downloaded the script. In the command prompt, type, cd desktop/RSSReply-master Now your command prompt should look like
C:\Users\AkitotheExiled\Desktop\RSSReply-master>
- Installing requirements.txt so our script can be ran. In the command prompt, type python pip install requirements.txt. Press enter and wait for the command to finish.
C:\Users\AkitotheExiled\Desktop\RSSReply-master>python pip install requirements.txt
- Enter your username and password for the account you will be using for the program
USER= user123
PASSWORD= myultrasecretpassword
- Go to reddit.com and login to your account. Now select your account name in the top right and select user settings
- Select Privacy & Security
- At the very bottom, select Manage third-party app authorization
- At the very bottom again, select create another app..
- In the name, type "ParseNReply by ScoopJr"
- Select the radio button: script
- In description, type "RSS Parse and Reply"
- For about url, type "http://localhost"
- For redirect url, type "http://localhost"
- Select create app
Secret
- look next to the text, "Secret", and copy this text down somewhere
SECRET= daklfanlfkanl392r29neorfjs
Client_ID
- Look at ParseNReply by ScoopJr, and right under Personal Use Script, is our client_id
- Copy the text and save it somewhere
CLIENT_ID= ddMaksjJsuyeb
- The time in seconds before fetching the RSS feed again.
- This does not have an effect when RUN_ONCE=true
DELAY=300
- The subreddit you will be running the program in!
mysubredditexample
- The RSS FEED the program will query for information. Now you can use multiple feeds/subreddits
- How to find an rss feed's url
- NEW Added ability to have more than one rss feed for your subreddit
https://n4g.com/rss/news?channel=next-gen&sort=latest
NEW MULTIPLE FEEDS
- Separate each rss url with a comma
yoursubreddit : https://n4g.com/rss/news?channel=next-gen&sort=latest, https://n4g.com/rss/news?channel=ps5&sort=latest
- When true, the script will run one time and then exit. DELAY DOES NOT AFFECT WHEN TRUE
- When false, the script will loop many times waiting DELAY seconds between runs.
RUN_ONCE=false
LEAVE ON DEFAULT SETTING. WILL BE REMOVED IN 1.11
FEED_TYPE=latest
- Leave on default
DEVMODE=false
- RSS Urls that contain direct links to images will now upload the image directly when this setting is on.
PREFER_IMAGES=true
- Set to true to allow the bot to comment the item description in the comments
COMMENT_DESC=false
- Set to true to change the bots behavior to post the description as a text post.
- ONLY ENABLE IF YOUR RSS FEED AS TEXT IN THE DESCRIPTION!!
POST_DESC=false
- Flair ids are not required. Script will issue a warning if no flair ids are mentioned.
- Grab the flair id for post flairs from your subreddit
- Flair count must match subreddit count(2 subreddits, 2 flair-template ids needed).
jf82hh3-328dh328-dfj2384r2h,2390423-jfsdf832-fsjsfj28
- On your desktop, navigate to the extracted folder, RSSReply-master and open it.
- Open the config.ini file
- Enter in your information that we've been gathering and save it!
It should now look like this!
[main]
USER =user123
PASSWORD=myultrasecretpassword
CLIENT_ID=ddMaksjJsuyeb
SECRET=daklfanlfkanl392r29neorfjs
DELAY=300
RUN_ONCE=false
FEED_TYPE=latest
DEVMODE=false
PREFER_IMAGES=true
COMMENT_DESC=false
POST_DESC=false
[suburl]
mysubredditexample : https://n4g.com/rss/news?channel=next-gen&sort=latest
mysecondsubreddit : https://n4g.com/rss/news?channel=ps3&sort=latest
[flairs]
FLAIR_IDS=jf82hh3-328dh328-dfj2384r2h,2390423-jfsdf832-fsjsfj28
- Make sure your account is a moderator in the subreddit you will be running in!!
- Time to run your script! In the command prompt, type, python parsereplybot.py. Your command prompt should match the below text
C:\Users\AkitotheExiled\Desktop\RSSReply-master>python parsereplybot.py
- Press the enter key on your keyboard. The script should be running now :)
Issue Tracker: https://github.com/AkitotheExiled/RSSReply/issues
https://www.reddit.com/user/ScoopJr
- Adding support for multiple subreddits/feeds COMPLETED 9/11/20
- Added support for flair-template ids for multiple subreddits COMPLETED 9/13/20