A reddit bot that (politely) corrects people who write "ect" instead of "etc" in comments. Like many other reddit bots, this relies on PRAW, the Python Reddit API Wrapper.
I parse through /r/all's comments using PRAW.Subreddit.comments, check them against a regex for the dreaded "ect," and attempt to educate them about their mistake in a response comment.
Reddit is of course the source of all of the content.
PRAW, mentioned above, is a critical Python package that makes this all doable.
GitHub user dmarx created a valuable example of a reddit bot that this is loosely based on.
The Python For Engineers Reddit bot tutorial was also a good resource for learning how to write this (and is more up-to-date than the example above).
- send myself an email if ectbot goes down
- create option to ignore certain users
- ignore "ect bot" and variations