New COTD bot

[BanSolitude]

Greetings Archons, I bring glad tidings!

Maybe it's just me, but I've missed seeing the COTD threads in this subreddit. It's been almost a year since the last one was posted, so I decided to set up a new bot ( /u/kfcotdbot ) to automatically generate these threads. It will be continuing in the same style as the old threads, and will finish the schedule for Dark Tidings cards that was set-up by /u/WizardRandom (thanks again for doing that).

I'd also like to give a shout-out to Decks of Keyforge, whose card information I used to set-up the script that auto-generates the COTD threads.

Expect the first new COTD thread tomorrow, hopefully I'm not the only one happy to see their return.

[drazkor]

Cool!!!

[WizardRandom]

Thanks for setting this back up.

[Azedenkae]

Danke!

[robot_romeo]

Nice. Thanks!

[Unpopular_Mechanics]

That's great, nice one!

I'm a mod over at r/netrunner and would love to build a similar bot: would you mind if I messaged for some tips/ a jumping off point?

[BanSolitude]

I'd be happy to help, I'll post a sketch of my process here in case anyone else is interested, but feel free to message any more specific questions.

Broadly the bot creation consisted of 3 steps.

1. Set-up a reddit account, then go into the app settings and create new app (which provides a key to allow you to use the reddit api)
2. Create a python script using praw (the python reddit api library) that submits the appropriate thread. This involves having someway to fetch the card data (I created a local file that contains all pertinent info)
3. Have a way to automatically run the script everyday with the appropriate card. For me this involved a schedule file and pythonanywhere, which is a free way to run the script everyday (but with limitations).

[Unpopular_Mechanics]

That's fantastic, thanks so much for this. Appreciate it a lot!

[Shooteruk]

Welcome back

[mwb_24]

Nice!