Creating a Reddit Bot to Detect Spam - Python Reddit API Wrapper (PRAW) tutorial p.4

In this tutorial, we cover how to make a reddit bot that detects spammers on reddit and posts their spam stats on their threads to hopefully raise awareness and stop people from blindly upvoting.

[ALpErEn]

Sentdex, I should say I'm really glad I found you. You are creating great content. I learned so many things watching your videos.

[DameLyf]

this is why I'm subbed, gonna have to get used to your sublime text 👍

[samhall]

Thank the lord I found your channel! I have wanted to start using my RaspberryPi with things like OpenCV and you are the only person I have found that makes it easy to learn and makes it enjoyable and not so mind numbing! Thank you!!!

[dwyt]

Mate that is actually horrible that someone would steal your work and would try to profit from it with out paying you any sort of royalty.

Really enjoy your work keep up the good job!

[henpark]

What a productive way to vent out your anger!! Awesome!

[kbinkows]

I love the audio quality of recorded voice -great mic!!

[tomare]

Haha the hate against spammers is real, love it

[andrewschatz]

Hey man. This is amazing and I've subscribed to your channel.

I've got two questions for you though about this video.

1. Why are you using lists for your "if x in y" lines? Why are you not using sets if you're continually running this operation?

2. One of your operations looks like it has a bug (I could be wrong though). Looking at the code that you linked to your github, lines 57-59 look like they would always return False. In line 57, you're creating a list with a length of 2. Then you're saying "if this list of length 2 is not in this other list, append a list with length 3". Wouldn't that statement always return True and you would always be appending to the list?

More specifically, 'junk' only has 2 elements in it but user_trashy_urls a list that contains lists that all have 3 elements.

Could you please let me know what you think?

Thank you.

[poopipeboy]

I like the fact that everyone else is using high-end graphics cards for cryptocurrency mining, meanwhile you're using them to solve programming problems.

[pizzafoot]

The fuels of rage reside here...
trashy_users
smelly_authors
Somebody barked up the wrong tree. Sentdex's bot is coming, alright.

[retiredshitposter]

When's the tutorial "Creating a Reddit Bot to Create Spam" coming out?

[isabelle]

bot is still running, and has almost 2k karma. nice job!

[Sauerbier_]

How about saving all these information and train an AI to recognize spammers? Would be a great Series :D

[tnmygrwl]

I just got a udemy video ad while watching this.

[richardzanguri]

Do you plan to make Python+Selenium web automation videos in future?

[darcwader]

ironically i had to see a udemy ad before i saw this video.

[benjaminlee]

Now all we need is a server to act as sort of a data base so we can run multiple bot instances would be interesting to add

[AdamSmith-uxif]

Nice tutorial. By any chance, did you code your bot to figure out what country the spammers are from? Assuming the spamming is being done by humans.

[williamwatkins]

To make it slightly more powerful could you compare the most used words in the spam comments and or title to build up your dict instead of guessing?

[Mrfadded]

I was wondering how one would go about making a program that takes a email and checks it against a list of websites to see if that email has been used for any of the listed sites?? Any direction would be welcomed