r/UpdateMeBot • u/Watchful1 • May 09 '20

UpdateMeBot Info v2.0

What is UpdateMeBot?

UpdateMeBot is a reddit bot that lets you subscribe to users in specific subreddits and get a message every time they post. Use it to follow authors that regularly post content or get up an update on an interesting thread.

UpdateMeBot commands

Comment commands:

  • SubscribeMe! Subscribes to the author of the post it's commented on. The bot will send you a message every time they post in that subreddit until you tell it to stop.
  • UpdateMe! Subscribes to the author of the post it's commented on. The bot will send you a message only the next time they post in that subreddit.

Message commands, these only work as messages to the bot:

  • SubscribeMe! r/subreddit u/author Subscribes to the author in the subreddit from the message. The bot will send you a message every time they post in that subreddit until you tell it to stop.
  • UpdateMe! r/subreddit u/author Subscribes to the author in the subreddit from the message. The bot will send you a message only the next time they post in that subreddit.
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/UpdateMeBot/comments/4wirnm/updatemebot_info/ Sent the full link of a post to subscribe to that author and subreddit. The bot will either send you a message each time or just the next time they post based on a per subreddit default.
  • Remove r/subreddit u/author Removes your subscription or pending update to an author in a subreddit.
  • MySubscriptions Responds with a list of all your subscriptions.

Message links

UpdateMeBot makes use of prefilled message links, like this one. From my research, these links work correctly in the browser on the classic site, the redesign, the mobile web site, and every single reddit app, except the official iOS reddit app. If you are on iOS, you can open the link in your mobile browser, switch to a different reddit app, or wait till you're on a computer browser.

Limited subreddits

The bot works by checking every subreddit that someone is subscribed to every few minutes. Each subreddit it checks takes several seconds, so I have to limit the number of subreddits or the bot will get overloaded. New subreddits are automatically added once they get enough requests.

Source

The bot is open source:

https://github.com/Watchful1/UpdateMeBot

Changelog

2.0: Completely rewrote code. If an author subscribes to themselves, they will receive a message after all the other messages for a post is sent stating how many messages were sent.

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u/DerekDemo Feb 14 '23

Why is the bot not working? I asked it to subscribe me to a user. It says that I am already subscribed, but I am not getting notifications. So I tried to unsubscribe, and then re-subscribe and it said that I wasn't subscribed. So I subscribed again, and it told me that I'm already subscribed. .........? What do I do?

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u/Watchful1 Feb 16 '23

It looks like you used to be subscribed to them, but then your account got suspended and when the bot tried to message you the message failed, so it deleted your subscriptions from the database to save space. Then you re-subscribed in a comment yesterday, which succeeded and when you tried to subscribe a second time in a message it told you that you were already subscribed.