CrunchyBot

Description:

This is a simple bot/script I made to publish my CrunchyRoll Guest Passes to Reddit. It uses Selenium and Chromedriver to extract valid guest passes from CrunchyRoll and PRAW to publish it /r/Crunchyroll's weekly Megathread. This is not a bot made to run indefinitely; however, it can be altered to do so if one so desired. It was intended for use in conjunction with a task scheduler/cronjob to check once every month (or four if you wish to publish them in sets before guest passes expire) for new guest passes.

Changes:

Due to how the PRAW library has changed, all users now must create a reddit script app. As such, the data file now must include additional data. See below for a quick guide on how to set this up.

As of 4.0.0, binaries for chromedriver and other tooling will not be included. Please refer to link on setting up and installing chromedriver.

Setting Up Reddit Account:

1. Log on to the bot account.
2. Go the bot account's preferences from the upper-right corner.
3. Click the apps tab.
4. Click the create another app. - The button test may appear differently if you have no apps setup.
5. In the prompts, ensure that the script radio button is toggled and redirected uri is is set to http://localhost:8080. The other fields can be filled with whatever you want.
6. Click create app button when done.
7. You should now see the app created. Right below the name and below personal use script will be your client_id. Within the box, to the right of the word secret, is your client_secret.

Prerequisites:

You will need to have Chrome installed on your system at its default installation path. This is due to the chromedriver working with your Chrome installation to retrieve Crunchyroll Guest Pass.

Note As of 4.0.0, chromedriver will not be provided. Please refer to link on setting up.

Install:

pip install crunchy-bot

Setup:

Run crunchy init to generate config file:

{
  "crunchy_username": "crunchy_user",
  "crunchy_password": "crunchy_pass",
  "reddit_client_id": "client_id",
  "reddit_client_secret": "client_secret",
  "reddit_user_agent": "CrunchyBot:v4.0.0 (hosted by /u/{YOUR_USERNAME})",
  "reddit_username": "reddit_user",
  "reddit_password": "reddit_pass",
  "log_dir": "/tmp/crunchybot/logs"
}

or save this to ~/.crunchybot.

Execute crunchy publish [--config path/to/.crunchybot] [--debug/-d] to start scrapping and publishing.

Development

With poetry

Assuming you have pyenv and poetry installed on your system, run the following within the repo:

pyenv local 3.8 # supports 3.6 - 3.9
poetry shell

This will set up a virtual environment for Crunchybot to work in without interfering your other python projects.

With poetry initialized, run:

$ poetry install

This will use the poetry.lock to fetch and verify dependencies.

Without Pipenv

Install PRAW and Selenium by running the following command:

$ pip install -e .

Once setup with or without poetry, crunchy command line should be available for execution. This will also generate a version.py using setuptools_scm.

Make and test your changes locally. Pull Request are welcome.

Automating:

OSX/Linux

Run crontab -e and add

0 0 1 * * zsh -lc "/path/to/crunchy publish"

You can replace zsh -lc with your shell's equivalent. This is mainly to execute any of your profile presets that may handle setting up PATH and other required environment variables to run.

Windows

Add the Python script to the Windows Task Scheduler with monthly frequency. Here is a link to setup the Task Scheduler.

Github

Note: Crunchyroll or Cloudflare have flagged ip coming from Github Actions CI. So, it's less likely to succeed now.

You can also fork this repository and utilize Github Actions to run this task on the first of each month. You must add the required data as all cap snake case secret variables.