r/bottest

1.2K archived posts · Aug 2011 – Mar 2024

Bot Test: Where the plot to destroy humanity starts

r/bottest

A sandbox subreddit where bots can be let loose for testing without needing to worry about bugs.

Created Aug 13, 2011

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1.2KArchived posts

Rules

Follow Reddit's API guidelines! (reprinted below)
Don't be a nuisance
Include a description of what the bot does in self posts or in the comments.
Bots are allowed to comment on any post in the subreddit, just because you made the post, doesn't mean it's your own private sandbox.
Humans may comment and post in the subreddit as long as it is either for a bot to test with or about a bot being tested in the subreddit.
Bots or humans that break the rules will be banned.
Bots that are malfunctioning in a bad way (commenting too much, making too many posts, etc) may be temporarily banned and the owner notified until the bug causing the malfunction is fixed.

Reddit's Rules for Bots using the API

Make no more than thirty requests per minute. This allows some burstiness to your requests, but keep it sane. On average, we should see no more than one request every two seconds from you.
Change your client's User-Agent string to something unique and descriptive, preferably referencing your reddit username.
- Example: User-Agent: flairbot/1.0 by spladug
- Many default User-Agents (like "Python/urllib" or "Java") are drastically limited to encourage unique and descriptive user-agent strings.
If you're making an application for others to use, please include a version number in the user agent. This allows us to block buggy versions without blocking all versions of your app.
- NEVER lie about your user-agent. This includes spoofing popular browsers and spoofing other bots. We will ban liars with extreme prejudice.
Most pages are cached for 30 seconds, so you won't get fresh data if you request the same page that often. Don't hit the same page more than once per 30 seconds.
Requests for multiple resources at a time are always better than requests for single-resources in a loop. Talk to us on the mailing list or in #reddit-dev if we don't have a batch API for what you're trying to do.
Our robots.txt is for search engines not API clients. Obey these rules for API clients instead.

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