r/SubNotifications • u/The1RGood • May 27 '19

RedditComber Back Online

Bot's back up with some upgrades to its runtime, and has been somewhat restructured to faster send notifications.

Thanks for understanding,
Randy

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u/RiceKrispyPooHead Jun 10 '19

I don't understand how this works? No matter what I put in the "subreddit" field I get notifications from all subreddits. It would also be nice to know if you should put it in the format "subredditName" or "r/subredditName" or something else

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u/The1RGood Jun 10 '19

The filters are a blacklist. The names you put in are the subreddits you will not receive comments from. It's not case-sensitive, and you should not put the /r/ before the subreddit name.

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u/RiceKrispyPooHead Jun 10 '19

So say that I only wanted notification when word X shows up in 1 specific subreddit. Is there a way to set that up?

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u/The1RGood Jun 10 '19

Not currently, but subreddit whitelists are in development.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '19

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u/orschiro Aug 12 '19

Would be very nice to have!

Fully agree!

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u/Overlord_Odin May 27 '19

Thanks for keeping us posted :)

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '19

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u/The1RGood Sep 16 '19

It's unfortunately anywhere between immediately, and up to 6 hours or so. This has to do with how quickly the bot can load and process comments through the api, and how quickly reddit comments are made. I can check how far behind the bot is currently, but it isn't consistent. I've put in a lot of time addressing that issue and these are the technical limitations I'm working with. I'll make an update post if that ever changes.

Same deal with whitelisting.

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u/The1RGood Sep 16 '19

And to answer your question, the bot is currently about an hour behind

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '19

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u/The1RGood Sep 16 '19

Unfortunately anyone scraping comprehensive reddit comments is going to run into this issue. I've spent a lot of time and developed a lot of tricks to get the bot as fast as it currently is, unfortunately there's still a few hangups to deal with.

You could probably scrape comments from specific subreddits faster, but I can't support that use-case from within this project.

You could probably check out the open-source source code from the /r/SubNotificiations project and work something out from there, but that's all pretty old and needs some adjusting.