Reddit and Twitter bot in Python using PRAW - python-3.x

Question

I am a beginner in Python, and trying out making a bot which automatically Tweets anything which is posted on a Subreddit that I have made.
I took help from some of the tutorials online which has the following code
import praw
import json
import requests
import tweepy
import time
access_token = '************************************'
access_token_secret = '************************************'
consumer_key = '************************************'
consumer_secret = '************************************'
def strip_title(title):
if len(title) == 94:
return title
else:
return title[:93] + "..."
def tweet_creator(subreddit_info):
post_dict = {}
post_ids = []
print("[bot] Getting posts from Reddit")
for submission in subreddit_info.get_hot(limit=20):
post_dict[strip_title(submission.title)] = submission.url
post_ids.append(submission.id)
print("[bot] Generating short link using goo.gl")
mini_post_dict = {}
for post in post_dict:
post_title = post
post_link = post_dict[post]
short_link = shorten(post_link)
mini_post_dict[post_title] = short_link
return mini_post_dict, post_ids
def setup_connection_reddit(subreddit):
print("[bot] setting up connection with Reddit")
r = praw.Reddit(' %s' %(subreddit))
subreddit = r.get_subreddit(subreddit)
return subreddit
def shorten(url):
headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
payload = {"longUrl": url}
url = "https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url"
r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)
link = json.loads(r.text)['id']
return link
def duplicate_check(id):
found = 0
with open('posted_posts.txt', 'r') as file:
for line in file:
if id in line:
found = 1
return found
def add_id_to_file(id):
with open('posted_posts.txt', 'a') as file:
file.write(str(id) + "\n")
def main():
subreddit = setup_connection_reddit('*Name of the subreddit*')
post_dict, post_ids = tweet_creator(subreddit)
tweeter(post_dict, post_ids)
def tweeter(post_dict, post_ids):
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
for post, post_id in zip(post_dict, post_ids):
found = duplicate_check(post_id)
if found == 0:
print("[bot] Posting this link on twitter")
print(post + " " + post_dict[post] + " #Python #reddit #bot")
api.update_status(post+" "+post_dict[post]+" #Python #reddit #bot")
add_id_to_file(post_id)
time.sleep(30)
else:
print("[bot] Already posted")
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
The code seems fine in PyCharm, however I am getting the following error when I try to run it directly from the folder via Terminal using the rolling code, reddit_bot2.py is my file name:
python3 reddit_bot2.py
When I try to run the code I am getting the following error:
mahesh#Maheshs-MacBook-Air Atoms % python3 reddit_bot2.py
[bot] setting up connection with Reddit
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/configparser.py", line 846, in items
d.update(self._sections[section])
KeyError: '**Name of the subreddit to fetch posts from**'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/mahesh/Python_Bot/Atoms/reddit_bot2.py", line 82, in <module>
main()
File "/Users/mahesh/Python_Bot/Atoms/reddit_bot2.py", line 62, in main
subreddit = setup_connection_reddit('Bot167')
File "/Users/mahesh/Python_Bot/Atoms/reddit_bot2.py", line 36, in setup_connection_reddit
r = praw.Reddit(' %s' %(subreddit))
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/praw/reddit.py", line 227, in __init__
self.config = Config(
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/praw/config.py", line 85, in __init__
self.custom = dict(Config.CONFIG.items(site_name), **settings)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/configparser.py", line 849, in items
raise NoSectionError(section)
configparser.NoSectionError: No section: ' Bot167'
You provided the name of a praw.ini configuration which does not exist.
For help with creating a Reddit instance, visit
https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/code_overview/reddit_instance.html
For help on configuring PRAW, visit
https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/configuration.html
Any help in this regards would be highly appreciated.
Thanks :)