redditSpyBot

A telegram bot that watches subreddits for particular post titles

What does it do

Every 5 minutes it gets the newest posts for the specified subreddits and if the post titles match the regex then the telegram bot will notify the user.

Features

• Supports watching of multiple subreddits at once
• Supports regex per subreddit
• Can also dump all text a user has written into reddit (comments/posts etc)
• Does not use Praw, hence no reddit credentials are required

Python dependencies

• python-telegram-bot
• requests

Installation

Install the dependencies:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Generate a token for your bot by talking to the Telegram bot father. Change the token in the source code to that of your bot.

Run bot:

python3 bot.py

Usage

• /watch <subreddit name> <optional regex> - Add subreddit to your watchlist. If regex is not provided, all posts will be matched. If subreddit is already on the watchlist, the regex will be updated
• /unwatch <subreddit name> - Remove subreddit from watchlist
• /list - Show all subreddits on the watchlist
• /dump <reddit username> - Gets all text a user has written in reddit and sends it as a text file
• /enable - Start polling subreddits on watchlist for posts every 5 minutes. (Disabled by default)
• /disable - Stop polling subreddits
• /regshow <subreddit name> - Show regex used for a particular subreddit
• /regclear <subreddit name> - Clear regex used for a subreddit to match all posts
• /help - Show help message