reddit_auto

This gem uses watir and selenium to automate almost all reddit features using a headless browser.


Keywords
autom, automation, bot, reddit, reddit-bot, reddit-crawler, ruby, ruby-gem, ruby-library, scraper, scraping-websites, selenium, selenium-webdriver, watir, watir-webdriver
License
MIT
Install
gem install reddit_auto -v 1.1.0

Documentation

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Reddit Automation Bot

Reddit auto is a ruby gem that allows you to automate several aspects of reddit. It doesn't use the reddit api, instead uses watir/selenium to automate.

Features

You can automate several things, here are some examples:

  • Account creation
  • Subreddit creation
  • Link/Text submitting
  • Commenting on posts
  • Scraping

Installation

gem install reddit_auto

Usage

You just have to start a class instance and assign a browser to it.

  require 'watir'
  require 'reddit_auto'

  r = Reddit.new
  r.browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, headless: true

  #your code here...

See some examples in the Examples folder.

Author

Ícaro Augusto

https://icaroaugusto.com

Changelogs

1.1

Added documentation.

1.0

Created.