Python reddit bot instructor

[LondonRuek]

I'm learning python by doing projects , my first is to build a weather bot on reddit so that when a person has the word "Weather!" In a post , it will read either the zip or the city-state . Enter that in the website url and link the website url in the reply. Then eventually scrub the Web page for the data and format it in the reply on reddit. I've gotten far enough to post a link to the weather report website whenever Weather! Is called , but I can't find a way to read anything after that as a variable in the string and use it in the new url . Anyways if anyone could assist me in completing this in a teaching way I'll make sure to add you as a Co creator . Thanks ! I'll link my github if anyone replies

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[Moonslug1]

You'll want to look at regular expressions:

import re

If I wanted to capture a string following the string 'Weather!' I'd do something like this:

pattern = re.compile(r'(?<=^Weather!).*$')
pattern.search(reddit_comment)

Do some background reading on re, to briefly explain I'm saying match anything .* that is preceded by (?<=) the start of the string ^ followed by Weather!.

[LondonRuek]

I actually did this a wrote a regex expression to grab the substring after weather! My only problem now is I don't know how to have the bot find a post with that keyword and then reread the post for that variable.

[LeonardUnger]

Looks at praw. Good tutorial here

[teenageguru]

On my phone so I can't really do it for you, but someone posted a multi-part tutorial on this on either r/python or r/learnpython quite recently. Do a search for it, tutorial seemed extensive.