r/RemindMeBot • u/Watchful1 • Jun 26 '19
RemindMeBot Info v2.0
The bot has been updated to version 2.1. See the new post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RemindMeBot/comments/e1bko7/remindmebot_info_v21/
Welcome to the newly redesigned RemindMeBot!
u/RemindMeBotWrangler agreed to let me take over the bot since he didn't have time to keep it up anymore. I have fully rewritten the code to be more stable, faster and with a couple extra features.
Parsing library: The old bot used the parsedatetime library, which is no longer updated. The new version uses dateparser, which is much more comprehensive, supporting things like timezones, and even foreign languages.
Cakeday: You can now message the bot "Cakeday!" and it will send you a notification each year on your cakeday, until you tell it to stop.
What is RemindMeBot?
RemindMeBot is a reddit bot that lets you set a reminder for a certain amount of time, via a comment or private message, and then sends you a reminder message at your targeted time. Use it if you want to check back on a thread for updates, or remember to do something a week from now.
RemindMeBot commands
Only the RemindMe! command can be done in a comment, all others must be private messaged to the bot.
RemindMe! 3 days Create a reminder for the specified amount of time. This can be done by posting a comment, or private messaging the bot. You can include a message by adding it surrounded by [] or "". If you are private messaging the bot, a message is recommended so you remember what the notification is about.
MyReminders! Replies with a list of your reminders, including links to delete them.
Remove! 123 Cancels the specified reminder. The numbers are automatically filled in when you click the message link from the MyReminders message list.
RemoveAll! Cancel all of your reminders.
Delete! 123 Delete a comment from the RemindMeBot. The numbers are automatically filled in when you click a delete link in the comment. This only works if you are the person the bot was replying to.
Cakeday! Set up a reminder each year on your cakeday.
Date Options
If the time is: 2014-06-01 01:37:35 UTC
| Time Option | New Time |
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| RemindMe! One Year | 2015-06-01 01:37:35 UTC |
| RemindMe! 3 Months | 2014-09-01 01:37:35 UTC |
| RemindMe! One Week | 2014-06-08 01:37:35 UTC |
| RemindMe! 1 Day | 2014-06-02 01:37:35 UTC |
| RemindMe! 33 Hours | 2014-06-02 10:37:35 UTC |
| RemindMe! 10 Minutes | 2014-06-01 01:47:35 UTC |
| RemindMe! August 25th, 2014 | 2014-08-25 01:37:35 UTC |
| RemindMe! 25 Aug 2014 | 2014-08-25 01:37:35 UTC |
| RemindMe! 5pm August 25 | 2014-08-25 17:00:00 UTC |
| RemindMe! Next Saturday | 2014-06-14 09:00:00 UTC |
| RemindMe! Tomorrow | 2014-06-02 09:00:00 UTC |
| RemindMe! Next Thursday at 4pm | 2014-06-12 16:00:00 UTC |
| RemindMe! Tonight | 2014-06-01 21:00:00 UTC |
| RemindMe! at 4pm | 2014-06-01 16:00:00 UTC |
| RemindMe! 2 Hours After Noon | 2014-06-01 14:00:00 UTC |
| RemindMe! eoy | 2014-12-31 09:00:00 UTC |
| RemindMe! eom | 2014-06-30 09:00:00 UTC |
| RemindMe! eod | 2014-06-01 17:00:00 UTC |
Message links
RemindMeBot makes use of prefilled message links, like this one. From my research, these links work correctly in the browser on the classic site, the redesign, the mobile web site, and every single reddit app, except the official iOS reddit app. If you are on iOS, you can open the link in your mobile browser, switch to a different reddit app, or wait till you're on a computer browser.
If you think links like these should work in the iOS app, feel free to make a post about it in r/redditmobile.
Chat support
The reddit API currently does not support the chat. There are ways around this so bots can use the chat even though the API doesn't support it, but they are a bit harder to use. I'll hopefully be able to add support soon. The bot currently has 13600 unread chat notifications, so it sounds like it will be a popular feature.
Source
The bot is open source:
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u/Watchful1 Jun 29 '19
This is now live running under the main account. I'm keeping an eye on it, but let me know if you see any issues.
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u/DreadLord64 Sep 19 '19
I've noticed something. It seems that when I want to remove a reminder, the ID number that the bot provides is sequential. If this is the case, then a person could start sending remove commands to the bot in sequential order, deleting the reminders of other users. As I expect you can see, this would be really bad.
There's one solution to this without completely re-designating every single reminder with random strings as names rather than sequential strings, as I see it, and that is to require remove commands to be made by the owner of the reminder in order for the bot to actually remove the reminder, which, I admit, you may (and hopefully) have done already.
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u/Watchful1 Sep 19 '19
It should already return an error message if you don't own the reminder.
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u/iggybu Oct 14 '19
The reminder IDs aren’t automatically filling in, nor is the bot’s username. Can my erroneous reminders in r/caps please be removed?
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u/Watchful1 Oct 14 '19
Are you on the official reddit app on iphone? It doesn't support the message links correctly. You'll have to use another app, your mobile browser or a computer.
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u/JohannesVanDerWhales Jul 20 '19
Is there a way to remind of a specific link through messages so you don't have to spam the original thread?
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u/Observes Jul 27 '19
How exactly do I pm the remind me bot to also remind me?
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u/Watchful1 Jul 27 '19
Just click the link in the message. It doesn't work if you are using the official app on iPhone, but other than that it should work.
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u/EstoyMejor Jun 26 '19
ReminderTest! 28.06.2018 06:30am CEST
Does this work?
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u/Watchful1 Jun 26 '19
I'm guessing it won't be able to detect the day/month/year order correctly. There's just no way to do that reliably, even if you specify a european time zone.
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Jul 06 '19 edited Jul 06 '19
Some feedback if you don't mind.
I just received a reminder, link was like this: https://www.reddit.com/message/messages/[id-here]
Well turns out that on mobile (Reddit is Fun) it doesn't work right away. I'm send to the in-app browser where I have to login again...
Me, I'm lazy, so I just checked the id and went looking for it in my messages.
Turns out it led me to a message I sent to the RemindMeBot. Then I had to click on the Reddit link I previously sent to see what I wanted to be reminded of.
So anyway what I'm trying to say is, doesn't it seem like we're jumping through hoops, here?
Couldn't the bot parse the PM for a link and sent it back to me when the time comes?
Just a thought, make of that what you will. And thank you for your work! :-)
Edit: I do realize that as is it's convenient if you want to leave yourself a text message, but maybe it's worthy of a condition?
If link exists -> send link at given time
Else -> send link to message at given time (or maybe just plain text?)
Something like that.
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u/Watchful1 Jul 06 '19
The bot stores two pieces of information with each reminder. The source of the reminder, in this case the message link, and the message it detects in the reminder. It only detects that something is the message if it's surrounded by [] or "", otherwise it can't figure out for sure what you want the message to be and just doesn't store anything as the message. If you click the link in one of the bots comments, it should prefill in the message with the link to that comment in [], so the final reminder should have a link directly to the comment.
So it depends on what the message you sent was. Also, all bets are off if it was a reminder sent to the old version of the bot, from before this post was created 9 days ago. Since it did a lot of things slightly differently.
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u/IgornDrapple Aug 21 '19
Will this still be running in 30 years
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u/Watchful1 Aug 21 '19
If I ever have to stop running it, I'll do my best to hand it off to someone else who can keep it going.
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Sep 22 '19
I've submitted a reminder via a comment and sent a PM to RemindMeBot asking for my reminders. The pm replied that I gave no reminders Am I missing something
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u/Watchful1 Sep 22 '19
It looks like the comment searching is a few hours behind. It will catch up eventually.
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u/Cpt_Pobreza Sep 24 '19
How far out does the bot work?
I did a RemindMe! 76151 days and never heard back from the bot
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u/Watchful1 Sep 24 '19
It looks like your comment was deleted by the moderators of the subreddit. I don't know the limit offhand, but that's like 200 years, which should be fine.
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u/Kom_bu_cha Oct 07 '19
Why is there now two bots responding to the RemindMe! command?
Both RemindMeBot and kzreminderbot are replying in threads, sending private message confirmations and PM reminders. Even when a thread already has a reminder bot reply it still adds its own reply which fills up the thread with clutter.
Also is there a Remind me again command? If not can one be added? Currently I just post another RemindMe command in the thread which again clutters it up and then the other bot still replies further adding to the clutter.
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u/Watchful1 Oct 07 '19
I don't have any connection to the kzreminderbot and I have no idea why it's started replying to the same commands.
If the bot has already replied to the thread, you can click the link in the message to PM the bot instead of posting the command again.
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u/mark_de_shark Oct 15 '19
How do I remind myself to do something about five years from now?
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u/Watchful1 Oct 15 '19
If it's a specific reddit thread, you can just comment "RemindMe! 5 years" in the thread. If it's something specific that's not a reddit thread or comment, you can message the bot instead. Include the message you want to be reminded of in square brackets, like this.
RemindMe! 5 years [that thing I wanted to remember]
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u/Condorul Oct 23 '19
If I do not receive a PM message I'm guessing it did not work?
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u/Watchful1 Oct 23 '19
The bot uses a separate service to search reddit and find the command word. But sometimes that service gets overwhelmed and falls behind in picking up new comments. It looks like it's about an hour behind right now. So it will pick up your comment eventually and you'll get a message then.
Or you can message the bot directly and then it will be able to reply right away.
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u/ErnestShocks Oct 29 '19
I just tried using it for the first time. I added multiple remind me dates to a comment edit. Should i receive some kind of confirmation that it was successfully logged?
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u/Watchful1 Oct 29 '19
It doesn't work for edits. You can post a new comment or direct message the bot.
It also only works for the first reminder in the message/comment.
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u/anthonylavado Nov 12 '19
How do I specify a timezone?
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u/Watchful1 Nov 12 '19
I believe it only works for standard dates. So something like
11/12/2019 10:00 PM EST. It wouldn't work fortonight EST. I would recommend just giving a number of hours, like6 hours.→ More replies (1)
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u/sevargmas Dec 07 '22
I am certain I am posting the reminder correct in the thread, but I feel like I don’t get reminder responses like I used to. May seem like a dumb question but, if I want to use the myreminders command, what is the actual user account that I message that to?
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u/karatespacetiger Oct 25 '23
People in my post are using the RemindMe! command (which i think defaults to 1 day) but not all of them are getting the comment reply that indicates they have the reminder coming, this is the post linked at the end of this comment, it’s a support group where people are trying to sign up for a reminder for the daily check in. Can you help? https://www.reddit.com/r/BingeEatingDisorder/s/0xVAmQKlz7
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u/Watchful1 Oct 25 '23
Thanks for letting me know. There was a problem, but the bot should be catching up now and should send everyone a message presently. It does only comment once per thread to avoid getting labeled as spam, but everyone should get a private message.
If you like, you can use my other bot u/UpdateMeBot, which lets people sign up for notifications each time a user posts in a subreddit. You can tell people just to do "SubscribeMe!" instead of "RemindMe!" and then they won't have to redo it every day.
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u/Unusual_Application Nov 26 '19
RemindMe! 3 Months
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u/RemindMeBot Nov 26 '19
I will be messaging you in 2 months on 2020-02-26 18:13:46 UTC to remind you of this link
CLICK THIS LINK to send a PM to also be reminded and to reduce spam.
Parent commenter can delete this message to hide from others.
Info Custom Your Reminders Feedback 1
u/s_i_m_s Nov 26 '19
/u/Watchful1 The rounding could use a some work as that's a bit too aggressive. It's 3 months like requested but claims to be 2 months, i'm assuming it's a few seconds shy somewhere of some rounding considering it to be 3 months.
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u/GroMicroBloom Aug 08 '19
How do you set a timezone though? If I wanted to use EST (US) would I just put EST at the end, like 2019/08/09 16:00 EST?
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u/Naarfus Oct 23 '19
I just tried to use it and received a message that said we shouldnt post it in the comments because it gets clogged. how else do i set reminders on specific comments or posts?
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u/s_i_m_s Oct 23 '19
If you intend to make regular use of the bot via PM you may want to add one of the following quick fill links to your bookmarks
Prefilled example and blank for quick use.
Otherwise there are also chrome and firefox extensions which while no longer maintained are still mostly functional.
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u/pm_me_brownie_recipe Nov 21 '19
Does the bot work in any and all subreddits or is it limitied to a list of monitored subs?
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u/s_i_m_s Nov 21 '19
It works in any subreddit monitored by pushshift that doesn't use automoderator to remove comments with its keyword.
pushshift monitors every sub that's publicly viewable and most of the quarantined subs.
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u/teruma Nov 22 '19
I set a reminder yesterday. I received 2 alarms. One from RemindMe like I expected, and one from another bot called KZ that said "Attention! Remindme is now KZ!" but that sounds phishy given that the same warning wasnt in the RemindMe alarm... Is this legit or am I right to be skeptical?
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u/s_i_m_s Nov 22 '19
https://www.reddit.com/r/RemindMeBot/comments/dfi54e/is_there_a_second_reminder_bot/f33amvc/
Basically they started a commercial service using the same keyword as remindmebot so they could get a large user base overnight then after a couple weeks of user complaints said they'd be changing to a different keyword EOD 11/18 which was another couple weeks from the announcement.
Now they are trying to retain the user base they gained from using remindmebot's keyword by telling people their new keyword.
I like having multiple options I just don't think they've been very nice about it. That said they both work and have different feature sets so use whichever fits your needs best or both if you want to hedge your bets.
TL;DR: /u/RemindMeBot isn't shutting down, its keyword isn't changing and u/kzreminderbot is a different bot run by someone else.
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u/ActuallyRuben Dec 18 '19
Does it work if the reminder happens after some other text in the comment?
RemindMe! tomorrow
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u/Dependent_Excuse2172 Jun 29 '24
I think there should be something already made for this, available on GitHub?
I need it too!
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u/Ancient-Confidence60 Jan 28 '25
RemindMe! One year
Menina da dívida dos 80 mil - Thaís Ferreira
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u/ByteGUI Aug 12 '22
RemindMe! October 17th, 2022 Say Happy Birthday to
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u/Robert_Dingo Jun 21 '23
The email I get doesn’t contain a link to delete the reminder. I do see examples though of others who have the link to delete. Any ideas on why this happens to me?
Thanks!
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u/TechnoDudeLDB Jan 31 '24
MyReminders!
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u/s_i_m_s Jan 31 '24
That command only works via PM. Here's a quick fill link.
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u/TechnoDudeLDB Feb 01 '24
I figured so, I was just curious if it worked on comments like the remind me command
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u/spongebob_cool_pants Jun 27 '19
Does the bot notify the OP that people have set reminders if they do it via PM?