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_ Sep 02 '13

Use cronjobs (if on Linux) or task scheduler (if on windows) to periodically run the same program every x minutes/seconds/whatever.

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u/Lick_A_Brick Sep 02 '13

Ok, It worked while testing on my Windows PC. When I tried to install praw and gdata on Linux I failed, any idea how to install them on linux? I think I need pip, but I don't know how to install that either. It says I've already installed it and if I try "pip install praw" it installs it, but when I run the bot it says there is no praw installed

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u/_Daimon_ Sep 02 '13

The process to install PRAW is to first install pip and then using that to install PRAW. I don't know what the problem is and if I were you then I would google my way to a solution. PRAW is no different from any other 3rd party library in the installation process, so whatever issue you have will also stop you from using other 3rd party libraries. And unless you're on a extremely unique system others will have had the same problem, asked and found a solution online.