This is a Discord bot that scrapes the r/GameDeals subreddit for free deals. It sends new deals to channels called "free-games" at 6am and 6pm every day.
- PRAW - Python Reddit API Wrapper
- discord.py - Python Discord API Wrapper
Create a config.py with the following properties:
DISCORD_TOKEN="" # Discord API token
DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID="" # name of the channel to post in
REDDIT_CLIENT_ID="" # Reddit client id from the API app
REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET="" # Reddit secret from the API app
REDDIT_USERNAME="" # Account username to login
REDDIT_PASSWORD="" # Account password to auth
REDDIT_USER_AGENT="Game Deals" # Any name to define the Reddit user agent
Use the client API ID from the Discord app and enter this into the url https://discordapp.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=XXXX&scope=bot&permissions=8
Replace XXXX with your ID.
python bot.py
This will connect the local running script with the Discord bot API and run the bot.