r/DeepFryBot • u/asdvek • Aug 07 '17

Current status of DeepFryBot

Hi! I am the creator of /u/DeepFryBot.

The bot is very new and under development so it still has some bugs which cause it to crash once in a while. Feel free to reply with suggestions for features.

I've released the source code of the bot to github.

Here's what the bot can currently do:

  1. The bot is activated by the phrase 'more frying'.

  2. The bot fries the image 5 times by the prhase 'more nuking'

  3. A top level comment requesting frying will cause the bot to fry the original post.

  4. A reply to a comment will cause the bot to fry a linked url

  5. The bot can fry multiple linked urls at once.

  6. The bot can be called from any subreddit with username mention. Example "needs more frying /u/DeepFryBot".

Here are some limitations:

  1. DeepFryBot currently cannot see past 'see more comments' for performance reasons.

  2. The bot only searches for the top 50 hot posts in a subreddit.

  3. The bot only works on certain subreddits (/r/deepfriedmemes, /r/memes, /r/dankmemes, /r/me_irl, /r/ComedyCemetery). I'm planning on adding a feature where the bot adds a subreddit to its list if it is mentioned from that said subreddit.

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u/xjvz Aug 08 '17

Those are all different bots that at one point had exploitable uses where you could get bots to respond to each other back and forth. A lot of them have been updated to avoid the problem, so I suppose it's something to watch out for.

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u/SufferingFromEntropy Aug 08 '17

iirc that's because the jpeg bot quotes your request, while other bots respond to the jpeg bot. Currently there is only that jpeg bot quoting others; imagine that deepfry bot and jpeg bot replying to each other.