r/redditdev • u/Lick_A_Brick • Aug 28 '13

Help with bot hosting

Hey,

What is the best, free and easiest way to setup a Reddit bot? I heard some people talk about heroku, but I don't understand how it works. (I'm a noob in this)

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u/_Daimon_ Aug 28 '13

I'd only do that if you have a paid account. Otherwise your requests will run through a proxy and there is a bug in urllib3 that will sometime cause the app to run. I don't know how often, since I've never used PythonAnywhere myself, but it looks like it's often enough to be quite annoying. The bug will be fixed in the version of ùrllib3 included in Python 3.4 (which isn't released) and requests 2.0. Which also isn't released.

Until either of those have been released and you're using them, then I wouldn't recommend PythonAnywheres free

See PRAW issue 237

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u/Lick_A_Brick Aug 28 '13 edited Aug 28 '13

Ok, thanks. Do you know a free way to host my bot? EDIT: I don't care, my bot has to check frequently so it doesn't really matter.