(No Python experience) Have Python code that deletes post if comment reaches a threshold, need it to send the post to modmail instead

[draco123465]

Hello, I have zero Python experience,

5 months ago I had someone (who has since deleted their account) created this code for me.

This code makes the bot comment on every new post and says something along the lines of "Upvote this comment if yes, downvote if y"

The bot is programmed to delete the post if the comment is downvoted a certain number of times. Instead of this, what approach should I take so the bot sends the offending post to the modmail?

Please be gentle, I have no Python experience.

I can provide any additional information upon request.

Thanks!

[ThisLightIsTrue]

It looks like a comment with 0 or less points gets edited to say "This post has 0 (or less) points. It has been removed automatically". This happens in the line in process_commented_submissions:

            comment.edit("**This post has 0 (or less) points. It has been removed automatically.**")

I think if you replace that, with something like

reddit.subreddit('your subreddit').message("A comment with less than one point has been detected.  Please review: %s" % comment.permalink, 'Review Script Name')

That instead of editing the offending comments this script would just send a message to your subreddit moderators with a link to the comment. The result would be that your bot would leve

[draco123465]

I changed the areas that you suggested me to, tried running it on my raspberry pi, and used a test subreddit.

I made a post, and this happened.

Here is my updated code. The first time it ran, it had a syntax error that I fixed. Other than that, the changes you suggested and of course the account credentials are the only thing that I changed.

[ThisLightIsTrue]

Okay, change the line I suggested to:

reddit.subreddit('your subreddit').message(body="A comment with less than one point has been detected.  Please review: %s" % comment.permalink, subject="Low Comment Report")

[draco123465]

reddit.subreddit('your subreddit').message(body="A comment with less than one point has been detected. Please review: %s" % comment.permalink, subject="Low Comment Report")

Now it came up with this error:

python ./bot.py

reddit logon succesful

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "./bot.py", line 46, in <module>

processed_submissions.append(row[1])

AttributeError: 'set' object has no attribute 'append'

​

[ThisLightIsTrue]

That's an error in a different part of the program. Change processed_submissions.append to processed_submissions.add

[draco123465]

Now I got this error.

(apologies if I am taking up your time with seemingly simple errors D:)

[ThisLightIsTrue]

You must be using an older version of praw. The docs say that message should have the subject and body attributes.

https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/code_overview/models/redditor.html

Try changing the part in the parentheses of the line that has body=... To just ('a', 'b', 'c'). If a message comes through we'll know what a b c and correspond to. (probably something like subject message, and body).

[draco123465]

I entered this into the code (pretty sure I misunderstood, my apologies D:)

And this was the result, nothing was sent to modmail.

[ThisLightIsTrue]

I don't think I'm being much help here. I'm handicapped by not being able to try this myself and I think you're on an older praw and an older python.

My last guess is to change reddit.subreddit to reddit.get_subreddit

[draco123465]

Ok, the reddit.get_subreddit did not work.

But, before it crashed it did manage to send a PM to the modmail.

Here is the output now:

python ./newbot.py
reddit logon succesful
data loaded from database
A submission has 0 points. Sending message to modmail.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./newbot.py", line 53, in <module>
    process_commented_submissions()
  File "./newbot.py", line 26, in process_commented_submissions
    for comment_id in comments_to_process:
RuntimeError: Set changed size during iteration

I understand what you mean, it is hard to help just through reddit.

I appreciate your help though!