Elite Dangerous Carrier Mission Trader

A discord bot that allows you to generate pastable messages and reddit posts/xposts.
Leverages the pycord python library

Installation

#TODO Dockerfile

Python

Developed on Python 3.8.10

Manual Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create Discord Bot account

https://docs.pycord.dev/en/v2.2.2/discord.html
https://docs.pycord.dev/en/v2.2.2/intents.html
You will need to enable message_content intent

Create Reddit Application

Navigate to https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps, scroll to the bottom and select create another app

• fill in the name
• select script as the type
• redirect uri may require a value, even though we don't use it, you can put in http://localhost:8080 Take note of your secret, the client_id is not as nicely labeled, but under the name

Configuration

Copy the config.ini.example to config.ini
Copy the praw.ini.example to praw.ini

config.ini

[DISCORD]
guildid = 1234455667788
bottoken = asd987sdf987df9s87fs98df7

guildid is your discord servers unique id. Right click your servers icon in a discord client and select Copy ID
bottoken obtained after creating your bot in the discord developer UI

[REDDIT]
main_sr = your_main_subreddit
main_sr_flair_buy = asdf8-asd9f8asdf-asd9f8asd9f7
main_sr_flair_sell = fgf78g7f8-fg8f7g8f-f7g8fg7
secondary_srs = second_subreddit
secondary_flairs_buy = 8d7fd87f8d-we76w7e67-df67
secondary_flairs_sell = 87676df7-d8f7d8-we67w6e

main_sr is the main subreddit to post your message to ie: elitetraders
main_sr_flair_buy the flair id to assign to the post in the main subreddit when the mission type is Loading
main_sr_flair_sell the flair id to assign to the post in the main subreddit when the mission type is Unloading
secondary_srs secondary subreddit(s) to cross post your main post to. This can be a comma separated list of multiple ie: elitecarriers,anothertrade
secondary_flairs_buy flair for the secondary subreddits when the mission type is Loading. If you have 2 secondary subreddits, you should have 2 flairs comma separated as well secondary_flairs_sell flair for the secondary subreddits when the mission type is Unloading. If you have 2 secondary subreddits, you should have 2 flairs comma separated as well

Use the /trade flairs subreddit command to look up flair ids for any subreddit

praw.ini

user_agent=a_cool_and_unique_useragent_name
client_id=12345567
client_secret=asdf87d7f8df7d87f8df
password=your_reddit_password
username=your_reddit_username

user_agent identifying name for your api requests to reddit
client_id client id obtained from the reddit app client_secret client secret obtained from your reddit app password your reddit login password username your reddit username

Startup

Make sure:

• discord bot has been created
• bot invited to your discord server
• reddit app created
• both config files created and updated

Run the following python3 bot.py
Your bot should now have registered the /trade slash command(s) on your discord. Try it out!

/trade mission
/trade flairs subreddit