Simple Bot

A basic Crabber bot that posts randomly from a list of quotes.

Installation

1. Clone this repository

~$ git clone https://github.com/crabber-net/simple-bot/
~$ cd simple-bot

2. Create an account for your bot on Crabber

3. Generate a developer key and access token on Crabber's developer page

4. In your project directory, create a file called .env and put the following content in it:

export CRABBER_DEPLOY_KEY="{{your developer key}}"
export CRABBER_DEPLOY_TOKEN="{{your access token}}"

5. Edit quotes.txt and fill it with stuff you want the bot to post.

6. [Only once] Install the dependencies

# with poetry
~/parabot$ poetry install
# or with pip
~/parabot$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

7. Run your bot and see if it works!

# with poetry
~/parabot$ poetry run python simple_bot.py
# or with pip
~/parabot$ python3 simple_bot.py

If it was successful you should see something like this in the logs:

2021-11-07 12:24:39.791 | INFO     | __main__:<module>:68 - Posted molt successfully.

Otherwise, read the logs and look for what went wrong. It's likely something pretty simple.

8. Deploy your bot! There are a lot of ways to do this so it's recommended you look up the best way to do it on your system. Here are a couple recommended options:
   • Linux: crontab
   • Windows: Windows Task Scheduler
   • macOS: Shortcuts, Automator, or crontab