Reddit Space Picture Bot

Reddit Bot built with Python and PRAW along with other libraries.
This program will post NASA's daily APOD(Astronomy Picture of the Day) at 12 p.m. each day and will post 3 random APODs at 5 p.m. each day. The pictures are requested from NASA's API. The requested pictures are downloaded, posted, and deleted 2 minutes after posting so no storage is required. This program is built following the PRAW documentation
the purpose of this bot is to post and share space-related pictures

Why I Built This Bot

I've always been interested in space and love looking at pictures and articles about it. Making this bot that posts a space picture and has an explanation on the bottom is a way to share my interest with like-minded people since this is posted only in a subreddit about space.

Installing PRAW and Requests

These are the libraries you'll have to install

pip install praw
pip install requests

Deployment

This bot is currently deployed on Python Anywhere (https://www.pythonanywhere.com)

Example: With these lines inside main(), the program will check every 40 sec if it's time to execute the 4 functions that run this bot

def main():
    print("BOT STARTED")
    # daily single post
    schedule.every().day.at("12:00").do(reddit_post_daily)

    # deleting the image after posting
    schedule.every().day.at("12:02").do(remove_pic)

    # daily gallery post
    schedule.every().day.at("17:00").do(reddit_post_rand)

    # deleting the image after posting
    schedule.every().day.at("17:02").do(remove_gal)


    while True:
        schedule.run_pending()
        time.sleep(40)

Example

This is an example of Daily APOD Post, the bot will post this picture and comment right under the post with the explanation

This is an example of Daily Random Post, the bot will post 3 random APOD with an explanation in the comment