AI Influencer Bot

This repository contains a small Reddit bot powered by PRAW and HuggingFace Transformers. The bot can create posts, reply to relevant threads, and upvote content on the webdev subreddit. A lightweight Flask app provides a dashboard and runs the bot periodically using apscheduler.

Environment Variables

Set the following variables in a .env file or your shell before running the bot:

• REDDIT_CLIENT_ID – Reddit API client ID
• REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET – Reddit API client secret
• REDDIT_USERNAME – Reddit account username
• REDDIT_PASSWORD – Reddit account password
• REDDIT_USER_AGENT – custom user agent string for the Reddit API

Installation

Use Python 3.8+ and install the dependencies with pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Running the Flask dashboard

Start the dashboard, which also schedules the bot to run every hour:

python app.py

The app exposes a simple web page at http://127.0.0.1:8080/ that shows recent log messages and allows you to trigger the bot manually.

Running the bot directly

You can also run the bot without the web interface:

python bot.py

Scripts and Features

• app.py – Flask server with a background scheduler. Shows the activity log and lets you run the bot on demand.
• bot.py – Core logic that uses GPT‑2 and Stable Diffusion to generate posts, comments, and images. Relevant posts and comments are identified with a zero‑shot classifier.
• test.py – Simple check to verify CUDA availability.

Generated images and text activity are logged to activity_log.txt.