Bump Bot

Introduction

Bump as a Service

This is a bot service which will bump Malaysia Forum Lowyat.NET post periodically. Written in python3 with headless browser.

Demo: https://webump.win/

Prerequisite

initiate bumpbot config and db

cd src
python sqlschema.py
cd environment
cp config.example.py config.py
vi config

install gecko

sudo sh -c 'tar -x geckodriver -zf geckodriver-v0.16.1-linux64.tar.gz -O > /usr/bin/geckodriver'
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/geckodriver
rm geckodriver-v0.16.1-linux64.tar.gz
export PATH=$PATH:/path-to-extracted-file/geckodriver

install mozilla

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox

Installation

Crontab

crontab -e
* * * * * /var/www/bumpbot/src/venv/bin/python3.6 /var/www/bumpbot/src/bumpnow.py
0 0 * * * /var/www/bumpbot/src/venv/bin/python3.6 /var/www/bumpbot/src/scheduler.py