Guide for setting things up

Welcome to the subreddit-notifier wiki!

Here you can find the details regarding installation of subreddit-notifier

Prerequisites:

1. An Android device.
2. Termux. Get it from Google Play or F-Droid.
3. Termux-API. Get it from Google Play or F-Droid.

Steps for installation:

1. Launch Termux and let it configure.
2. Install git.

pkg install git

3. Install python.

pkg install python

4. Clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/AyamDobhal/subreddit-notifier

5. Navigate to the repository directory.

cd <path-to-the-dir>

6. Install the requirements.

pip install -r requirements.txt

7. If everything has gone fine so far, go to this link and follow these steps to create your new app.

• Login to reddit if you haven't already.
• Select create app
• Enter the name of your app. e.g. subreddit-notifier.
• Select script.
• Add description and url description.(optional)
• For redirect uri, fill in this: https://localhost:8080
• Press create new app.
• Get your client_key and client_secret.

Steps to run:

1. Export your client_key, client_secret and the name of the subreddit you want as environment variables.

• export REDDIT_APP_KEY=<client_key>
• export REDDIT_APP_SECRET=<client_secret>
• export SUBREDDIT=<name of subreddit of your choice>

2. Now that you're done with everything, run the following command to get the script running:

python main.py