/u/MechKBot

A series of scripts utilized by the mod team of reddit's /r/mechmarket to monitor and award trade flair to its userbase.

Lovingly cloned from the source code for /r/hardwareswap's trade bot.

=========== List of TODOs:

1. Generalize the current config handler into something more standardized. * Don't want to rely on "magic strings" if at all possible. * Done -- see bot.config_generator class and associated bot.bot.CONFIG_DEFAULTS dictionary.
2. Generate method by which to more throughly verify a user's heatware before adding their flair. * May require direct crawling of the heatware site. * Done -- see bot.heatware_crawler class.
3. Create handler for long-term storage of user information and associated data. * Would rather not have to require the user set up an external database if at all possible. * Considering shelve currently -- see bot.database_handler class.
4. Finalize bot state logic. * Any method added to the body of the bot.bot class that starts with the string _state is automatically added into its logic loop currently. * Need to consider whether splitting bot logic into two groups, looped and scheduled, would be useful.
   • Scheduled logic would take crontab-esk input -- schedule would be good for this.
   • Normal looped logic would continue to rely on the current _state* naming method.
5. Finalize interactive bot console. * Would like to have the display split horizontally:
   • Bottom portion could display running log of the bot's actions.
   • Top portion would be used for comand input. * Considering cmd currently, would require modification to get the whole "split terminal" thing working.
6. Open-source the data! * It'd be great if users could download the data the bot had collected on them. * Could dump data to a linked Google Drive account, keep it there for ~24 hours before deleting it. * google-api-python-client would be useful.