voter

Vote bot for Reddit. Efficiently vote by subreddit, user name and keyword filters.

build

$ go get github.com/jpclark/voter...
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/jpclark/voter
$ go build

The first time you run the bot it will create a database file in the directory named by the "datadir" configuration variable. You will need to create this directory in the voter working directory (or wherever you wish to store it), e.g.

$ mkdir $GOPATH/src/github.com/jpclark/voter/data

note: this database tracks which posts have been voted on to prevent wasting vote requests

usage

You must create a configuration file and pass it in with the -c flag. See the example.config.json file and documentation below for the required fields.

$ ./voter -?
Usage of ./voter:
  -c string
    	config file
  -da
    	downvote everything found in configured subreddits
  -h	enables hammer mode
  -k	upvote/downvote posts in subreddits based on keywords
  -ua
    	upvote everything found in configured subreddits
  -v	enable verbose mode
  -vu
    	upvote/downvote everything by users in config

default mode

This runs the voter based on the subreddit and user configuration in your config file. The voter will upvote/downvote users in the user lists, but only if they are found in the configured subreddits.

$ ./voter -c yourconfig.json

upvote/downvote by keywords

This uses the upvotekeywords and downvotekeywords configuration to search through the configured subreddits for comments and posts containing the given keywords.

$ ./voter -c yourconfig.json -k

upvote everything in given subreddit

Upvote every new comment and submission in the configured subreddit(s). The limit configuration property is important to configure if using this mode.

$ ./voter -c yourconfig.json -ua

downvote everything in given subreddit

Downvote every new comment/submission in the configured subreddit(s).

$ ./voter -c yourconfig.json -da

vote on everything posted by given user(s)

Vote on all comments and submissions from user names in config (regardless of subreddit).

$ ./voter -c yourconfig.json -vu

smash votes with a hammer

Enable "hammer" mode based on subreddit, where every new comment (score of 1) is upvoted by someone, the bot upvotes it as well. If a new comment gets downvoted the bot downvotes it too:

$ ./voter -c yourconfig.json -h

configuration

config fields

useragent - http user agent to send to reddit from client

datadir - path to folder where you want to store database file(s)

limit - limit the number of posts to retrieve each iteration. tune this to popularity of the target subreddit(s)

sleep - number of seconds to rest between iterations of voting loop

ignores - array containing user names to leave out of voting

subreddits - array containing subreddit names to target

upvotekeywords - array containing keywords to search for and upvote

downvotekeywords - array containing keywords to search for and downvote

downvoteusers - array containing user names to downvote

upvoteusers -- array containing user names to upvote

redditaccounts - array containing logins for the reddit accounts you wish to vote with

example config file

{
  "useragent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1.2 Safari/605.1.15",
  "datadir":"data",
  "limit":100,
  "sleep":30,
  "ignores":[
    "user_to_ignore",
    "my_own_user_name",
    "another_user"
  ],
  "subreddits":[
    "list",
    "of",
    "subreddit_names"
  ],
  "downvoteusers":[
    "users_to_downvote",
    "another_user"
  ],
  "upvoteusers":[
    "users_to_upvote",
    "another_user"
  ],
  "upvotekeywords":[
    " case insensitive ",
    " keyword ",
	" or ",
    " keywords ",
    " to look for ",
    " and upvote "
  ],
  "downvotekeywords":[
    " case insensitive ",
    " keyword ",
	" or ",
    " keywords ",
    " to look for ",
    " and downvote "
  ],
  "redditaccounts":[
    {
      "user":"your_user",
      "pass":"your_pass"
    },
    {
      "user":"another_user",
      "pass":"another_pass"
    },
    {
      "user":"yet_another",
      "pass":"yet_another_pass"
    }
  ]
}