I'm trying to learn how to make a Reddit bot in Python but am getting the following error message...
C:\Users\Warbz\Desktop>python redditbot.py
Logging in...
Grabbing subreddit...
Grabbing comments...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "redditbot.py", line 30, in <module>
run_bot()
File "redditbot.py", line 19, in run_bot
for comment in subredditComments:
TypeError: 'CommentHelper' object is not iterable
My code is this...
import praw
r = praw.Reddit(client_id="***",
client_secret="***",
username="***",
password="***",
user_agent = "/u/Fazy89")#Description of the script
print("Logging in...")
words_to_match = ['definately', 'defiantly', 'definantly', 'definatly', 'definitly']
cache = []#ID's of comments already replied to
def run_bot():
print("Grabbing subreddit...")
subreddit = r.subreddit("test")#Get SubReddit e.g /r/test
print("Grabbing comments...")
subredditComments = subreddit.comments
for comment in subredditComments:
comment_text = comment.body.lower()#Assign variable to lower case body of text
isMatch = any(string in comment_text for string in words_to_match)
if comment.id not in cache and isMatch:#^If comment has not been added to cache and is a match
print("Match found! Comment ID: " +comment.id)
comment.reply('I think you meant to say "Definitely".')
print("Reply successful!")
cache.append(comment.id)#Add comment ID to cache
print("Comments loop finished, going to sleep...")
while True:
run_bot()
time.sleep(10)
I've tried looking at the PRAW api but I'm not sure what is actually going wrong, any help please?
comments provides an instance of CommentHelper, which needs to be instantiated using parenthesis to call it.
for comment in r.subreddit('test').comments(limit=25):
print(comment.author)