Reddit Autoremoval Bot - Setup

This will show you how to setup the bot:

#1: Download the bot

Download and unzip the bot zip file: autoremove-bot.zip

--or--

curl https://littux.vercel.app/guides/hidden/autoremove-bot/res/autoremove-bot.zip -o autoremove-bot.zip && \
unzip autoremove-bot.zip && \
cd autoremove-bot

#2: Get API Credentials

Create a new account for the bot.
Go to https://reddit.com/prefs/apps while being logged onto your bot account
Create an app of type "script"
Copy the application id and secret to client_id and client_secret in config.py, which is on the code/ directory.
Update the useragent, username and password accordingly

#3: Install dependencies

pip3 install praw

#4: Configure the bot

Open up config.py in the code/ subdirectory to change some important values:

flair: Change this to the template id of the flair to monitor.
- To get the template id, go to https://reddit.com/mod/[subreddit]/postflair and click "Copy ID"
subreddit: The subreddit name, case sensitive
Adjust others as needed.

You can also modify autoremove-bot.sh as needed
Image of Shell script

#5: Running the bot

Add execute permissions to script if running for the first time

chmod +x autoremove-bot.sh

To start, run the script with ./autoremove-bot.sh