This is a bot I made for the Reddit /r/place event of 2017 April Fools Day.

I made this bot to protect our national flag on /r/argentina

You need to have NodeJS installed

git clone https://github.com/zequez/reddit-place-bot
cd reddit-place-bot
npm install

Change users.example.json to users.json and add your username and password of your account and all your throwaways.

If you run it as it is, is going to connect to the placebot-argentina-target repository and try to draw the official_target.bmp. If you don't want to do that you can open config.js and set autoupdateRemoteTarget: false. This will make it use target.bmp instead.

Every time it's time to place a pixel the bot will download the board (and latest remote target) and find the first pixel that doesn't match the target, and fill it with the correct color.

Since I honestly couldn't figure out how to make transparent BMP files I just set it so that the color #ff00ff is considered transparent. Anything transparent will be ignored.

You have to use the exact same colors as the board or the app is gonna throw an error, it's not smart enough to guess the colors based on similarity.

  npm run start

It'll keep keep drawing forever and if it can't draw anymore it's gonna wait until something breaks and fix it.

LOL

You can npm run watch, but that's about it.

Thanks to trosh/rplace to figure out how to actually read the bitmap from the server. I just ported that to Node.

MIT