StoryBot works like the more famous BeetusBot. It posts other submissions by the same author on new submissions, it allows you to subscribe to a specific author so that you will receive a new message every time this author posts a new submission. If you no longer want messages you can unsubscribe from a specific author.

The bot runs on Python 2.7 with the following package:

• PRAW aka. Python Reddit API Wrapper

which can be easily installed using pip

pip install praw

Open the config.ini and edit it accordingly. These are the things you have to edit:

[reddit]
username=username ; reddit username of your bot
password=password ; reddit password of your bot
subreddit=badpeoplestories ; subreddit in which the bot should work

[technical]
debug=on ; set debug=off to allow your bot to comment and send messages

I would recommend that you bot's account should have some link karma so that it can send messages without captcha restrictions.

If you execute the bot.py with

python bot.py

it will crawl the /new page and check each new submissions. For each submission it will use the search function with (author:) to find other submissions in the same subreddit by the same other. If it found any it will post a comments including its findings. Also it will message all subscribers.

If you have any requests or actions feel free to open an issue, message me on reddit (/u/tst__) or write me an email.