else/HerokuBot/README.md

Using Heroku to run a bot

Thank you /u/cmd-t for helping me to finally understand this

Inside git.zip is the .git repo that I created for this. I had to zip it so that I can push it here.

1. Create a Heroku account.

2. Install Git.

3. Install Heroku toolbelt.

4. Create a folder to keep your repo in.

5. Open a terminal and cd into that folder.

6. Write your bot.

7. Create requirements.txt, and require a version of praw.

8. Create runtime.txt, and require a version of Python.

9. Create Procfile, and create a worker that will launch your bot. Notice that this file does not have an extension.

10. > heroku login

     Enter your Heroku credentials.
     Email: email@email.com
     Password (typing will be hidden):
     Authentication successful.
    

11. > git init

12. > git add .

13. > git commit -m "Commit Message"

14. > 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
    

15. > 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
    

16. > heroku ps:scale worker=1

    Scaling dynos... done, now running worker at 1:1X.
    

17. > 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!
    

18. Celebrate

19. To turn your bot off at any time, simply > heroku ps:scale worker=0