Reddit bot that replies to comments with excerpt from linked wikipedia article or section.

Current instance: In action | Subreddit

• Responds to comments like "wikibot, what is dancing?" and "wikibot, tell me about enigma machine"
• In-post summoning to keywords. e.g. I guess, OP should add some more ?- Liverwurst -? to the recipe
• Suggest upto 4 related interesting articles
• Deletes on parent commenter command
• Deletes if comment score below threshold
• User blacklist
• Automated subreddit blacklisting on first HTTP 403 encountered

Tested in Python 2.7.6

To install the required dependencies from PyPI, run pip install -r requirements.txt from the command line. This will install the praw, pyimgur, beautifulsoup4, wikipedia modules.

First, with your bot account, create 3 comments where they will not be removed by someone.

1. comment with banned users list separated by single newline
2. comment with excluded subreddits (without /r/) list separated by single newline
3. comment with list of subreddits where bot will only reply to top level (root) comments
4. comment with a number indicating total number of posts made by bot. Set 0 at first setup.

Second, You need to create a file called datafile.inf and have following data in it on separate lines:

• reddit bot username
• reddit bot account password
• imgur client id
• ID of comment with banned users list
• ID of comment with excluded subreddits
• ID of comment with root only subreddits
• ID of comment with a number of total number of posts

The file will look something like this:

wikipedia_robot
botspassword
rt23rnsr2453fop
cetagti
cefsfs4
cef43fs
ce5gd56

This source code is available under a custom licence. See the accompanying file LICENCE.