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Using Heroku to run a bot
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[Thank you /u/cmd-t for helping me to finally understand this ](http://www.reddit.com/r/botwatch/comments/34dpku/can_someone_write_a_complete_idiots_guide_to/cqts1tr )
Inside git.zip is the .git repo that I created for this. I had to zip it so that I can push it here.
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1. Create a [Heroku account ](http://heroku.com ).
3. Install [Git ](http://git-scm.com/ ).
2. Install [Heroku toolbelt ](https://toolbelt.heroku.com/ ).
4. Create a folder to keep your repo in.
5. Open a terminal and `cd` into that folder.
5. Write your bot.
6. Create requirements.txt, and require a version of praw.
7. Create runtime.txt, and require a version of Python.
8. Create Procfile, and create a worker that will launch your bot. Notice that this file does not have an extension.
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9. `> heroku login`
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Enter your Heroku credentials.
Email: email@email.com
Password (typing will be hidden):
Authentication successful.
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10. `> git init`
11. `> git add .`
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12. `> git commit -m "Commit Message"`
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13. `> heroku create`
Creating aqueous-plains-9797... done, stack is cedar-14
https://aqueous-plains-9797.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/aqueous-plains-9797.git
Git remote heroku added
14. `> git push heroku master`
Counting objects: 10, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done.
Writing objects: 100% (10/10), 1.06 KiB, done.
Total 10 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Compressing source files... done.
remote: Building source:
remote:
remote: -----> Python app detected
remote: -----> Installing runtime (python-3.4.2)
remote: -----> Installing dependencies with pip
remote: Collecting praw>=2.1.21 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
remote: Downloading praw-2.1.21-py2.py3-none-any.whl (75kB)
remote: Collecting requests>=2.3.0 (from praw>=2.1.21->-r requirements.txt (line 1))
remote: Downloading requests-2.6.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (470kB)
remote: Collecting update-checker>=0.11 (from praw>=2.1.21->-r requirements.txt (line 1))
remote: Downloading update_checker-0.11-py2.py3-none-any.whl
remote: Collecting six>=1.4 (from praw>=2.1.21->-r requirements.txt (line 1))
remote: Downloading six-1.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
remote: Installing collected packages: six, update-checker, requests, praw
remote:
remote:
remote:
remote:
remote: Successfully installed praw-2.1.21 requests-2.6.2 six-1.9.0 update-checker-0.11
remote:
remote: -----> Discovering process types
remote: Procfile declares types -> worker
remote:
remote: -----> Compressing... done, 38.3MB
remote: -----> Launching... done, v3
remote: https://aqueous-plains-9797.herokuapp.com/ deployed to Heroku
remote:
remote: Verifying deploy... done.
To https://git.heroku.com/aqueous-plains-9797.git
* [new branch] master -> master
15. `> heroku ps:scale worker=1`
Scaling dynos... done, now running worker at 1:1X.
16. `> heroku logs > logs.txt`
2015-05-01T00:32:38.691805+00:00 app[worker.1]: Logging in.
2015-05-01T00:32:41.396117+00:00 app[worker.1]: Getting subreddit info.
2015-05-01T00:32:41.397202+00:00 app[worker.1]: /r/Goldtesting
2015-05-01T00:32:45.316887+00:00 app[worker.1]: Created at: 1400997940
2015-05-01T00:32:45.316897+00:00 app[worker.1]: Subscribers: 17
2015-05-01T00:32:45.316900+00:00 app[worker.1]: All done!
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17. Celebrate
18. To turn your bot off at any time, simply `> heroku ps:scale worker=0`
