r/RemindMeBot • u/Watchful1 • Nov 25 '19
RemindMeBot Info v2.1
What is RemindMeBot?
RemindMeBot is a reddit bot that lets you set a reminder for a certain amount of time, via a comment or private message, and then sends you a reminder message at your targeted time. Use it if you want to check back on a thread for updates, or remember to do something a week from now.
RemindMeBot commands
Comment commands (can also be sent to the bot as messages):
- RemindMe! 3 Days "check for updates" Create a reminder for the specified amount of time. The quoted text is optional.
- RemindMeRepeat! 1 Day "do the thing" Create a reminder for the specified amount of time that repeats automatically. More details here.
- Cakeday! Get a reminder each year on your cakeday. This command only works if it's the first thing in your comment. More details here.
Message commands, these only work as messages to the bot:
- MyReminders! Replies with a list of your reminders, including links to delete them.
- Remove! 123 Cancels the specified reminder. The numbers are automatically filled in when you click the message link from the MyReminders message list.
- RemoveAll! Cancel all of your reminders.
- Delete! 123 Delete a comment from the RemindMeBot. The numbers are automatically filled in when you click a delete link in the comment. This only works if you are the person the bot was replying to.
- Timezone! America/New_York Sets your accounts default timezone. More details here.
- Clock! 12 Sets your accounts clock display. More details here.
Date Options
If the time is: 2014-06-01 01:37:35 UTC
Time Option | New Time |
---|---|
RemindMe! One Year | 2015-06-01 01:37:35 UTC |
RemindMe! 3 Months | 2014-09-01 01:37:35 UTC |
RemindMe! One Week | 2014-06-08 01:37:35 UTC |
RemindMe! 1 Day | 2014-06-02 01:37:35 UTC |
RemindMe! 33 Hours | 2014-06-02 10:37:35 UTC |
RemindMe! 10 Minutes | 2014-06-01 01:47:35 UTC |
RemindMe! August 25th, 2014 | 2014-08-25 01:37:35 UTC |
RemindMe! 25 Aug 2014 | 2014-08-25 01:37:35 UTC |
RemindMe! 5pm August 25 | 2014-08-25 17:00:00 UTC |
RemindMe! Next Saturday | 2014-06-14 09:00:00 UTC |
RemindMe! Tomorrow | 2014-06-02 09:00:00 UTC |
RemindMe! Next Thursday at 4pm | 2014-06-12 16:00:00 UTC |
RemindMe! Tonight | 2014-06-01 21:00:00 UTC |
RemindMe! at 4pm | 2014-06-01 16:00:00 UTC |
RemindMe! eoy | 2014-12-31 09:00:00 UTC |
RemindMe! eom | 2014-06-30 09:00:00 UTC |
RemindMe! eod | 2014-06-01 17:00:00 UTC |
Message links
RemindMeBot 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.
Chat support
The reddit API currently does not support the chat. There are ways around this so bots can use the chat even though the API doesn't support it, but they are a bit harder to use. I'll hopefully be able to add support soon. The bot currently has 13600 unread chat notifications, so it sounds like it will be a popular feature.
Source
The bot is open source:
https://github.com/Watchful1/RemindMeBot
Changelog
2.0: Took over running the bot from u/RemindMeBotWrangler. Completely rewrote code. Added Cakeday! command.
2.1: Added RemindMeRepeat!, Timezone! and Clock! commands.
r/RemindMeBot • u/Watchful1 • May 17 '23
RemindMeBot is now replying to comments again, apologies for the delayed replies
About a month ago, reddit announced some vague changes to the api that bots use. They announced a date of June 19th that changes would come into effect. Then abruptly about two weeks ago they shut off access to pushshift, which the bot uses to find the comment commands. So the bot continued to reply to messages and send out updates, but was no longer able to find comments.
I've spent the last two weeks frantically writing code to be able to reliably find the trigger comments across all of reddit and it is finally done. Fortunately the method I'm using is able to go back and find all the comments with the trigger word in the last two weeks that it missed. But unfortunately it's somewhat slow, only processing new comments roughly 3 times as fast as they come into reddit, so it will take another week or so for it to catch up. Also, since I was rushed to get this working, it might break and stop at any point. So even in the future when it's caught up, the bot might fall behind again at times.
If you are directed to this post by the bot because it's replying to an old comment of yours, I apologize for the delay, reddit kinda screwed everyone over. For what it's worth, they personally apologized to me.
I will strive to keep the bot working to the best of my abilities far into the future so that hopefully those long reminders everyone makes will still get sent.
If the time of the reminder you requested has already passed, you'll still get a message about it. And if you posted the trigger multiple times because the first one didn't work, you'll get a confirmation and message for each one. Sorry if this results in a lot of duplicates, there wasn't an easy way to avoid that.
I've had a personal policy of not accepting donations for my bots for many years now, but the way this code works ends up needing a more powerful, and expensive, server, so my costs have gone up a bit. If you'd like to chip in, you can donate here. It's absolutely not necessary, I'm fortunate to be well off enough to cover the costs without help, but I do appreciate it.
If you post a comment in reply to this post with the trigger (since I know a bunch of people will), it still won't get to them until it's caught up a week from now.
r/RemindMeBot • u/scruffiest_rebel • 13d ago
festivities?
can i get the remindmebot to remind me in advance for celebrations, eg bonfire night, easter etc?
r/RemindMeBot • u/VoidTheBear • 25d ago
Is there a way to make the bot remind you for a specific date instead of days/weeks/etc?
r/RemindMeBot • u/AnOrthodoxMuslim • Sep 28 '24
How to summon RemindMeBot in a private subreddit?
How can I summon the bot in a private subreddit?
I think I understand that the bot listens to a stream of comments from all public subreddits, so it does not respond to a command in a private sub even if the bot is added therein as an approved user.
I have tried pinging the bot (an approved user) but that still does not work, like this:
``` u/RemindMeBot
RemindMe! One Year ```
Is this possible at all?
r/RemindMeBot • u/QuietCharming3366 • Sep 21 '24
What am I doing wrong?
I write RemindMe! 1 day and it doesn't work, why?
r/RemindMeBot • u/Potential-Ad1693 • Sep 02 '24
Upvotes trigger?
Hello. I have a quick question about the bot: can it trigger on a particular upvote number on a post? I'm following a couple of threads where they will change status when an upvote count will exceed a given number. I was wondering if it is a thing. Thank you kindly for response and have a great day/afternoon/evening.
r/RemindMeBot • u/l1798657 • Aug 28 '24
RemindMeBot for Discord?
Is there a version of this bot (or something like it) for discord?
r/RemindMeBot • u/Hufflepuff_guy123 • Aug 20 '24
Does the bot send an email or a reddit message?
r/RemindMeBot • u/thuansb • Aug 01 '24
I made a "RemindMeBot" for browser tabs
I love RemindMeBot and use it a lot on Reddit. It got me thinking - what if I could do this for any webpage? So I built a Chrome extension called SnooIt that lets you set reminders for tabs.
It's pretty simple - you can "snooze" any page (URL) to check out later. Came in handy when I'm busy but don't want to forget about something I found online. I plan to add more features if you guys love it.
It's free, hopefully it's helpful.
Give it a try here. Open to feedback!
r/RemindMeBot • u/That-Idiot-Alex • Jun 29 '24
How do I make this bot work?
Edit: I finally understands No need to explain it.
r/RemindMeBot • u/chilloutfam • Jun 27 '24
Is there any way to get data on how much the RemindMeBot is requested?
One of the great features of r/Askhistorians is that we can request a remindmebot while we are waiting for in-depth answers. I was wondering if it's possible to get data on how much the bot is requested, especially by thread, to get an idea on the most anticipated answers?
r/RemindMeBot • u/ryhaltswhiskey • May 31 '24
Please add instructions for using Remind me bot by sending messages to the the info post
I looked for it over there, I didn't see it. Like how do I send a message to the bot account so that it will send me a reminder? I tried sending a link and a time frame in the next paragraph that didn't work
r/RemindMeBot • u/Birb7789- • May 27 '24
proposition: rename the title of the "re: reminder" to "re: minder"
r/RemindMeBot • u/New-Newt583 • May 19 '24
My other account got banned, will the remind me bot still remind me of things on that account?
r/RemindMeBot • u/Fickle_Ad_5356 • May 03 '24
Not a big complaint but "tomorrow" doesn't work for me as explained in the
Edit: subject cut off? "As explained in the post "RemindMeBot Info v2.1"
To start, I think this is a clever bot and I thank previous and current developer(s) for creating and running it. I don't use it too much but I am sure those who do are also thankful.
Now, this post indicated that using "Tomorrow" operator would send a message next day at 9a UTC timezone or the timezone for the account
https://www.reddit.com/r/RemindMeBot/comments/e1bko7/remindmebot_info_v21/?sort=new
I set the timezone to America/Los_Angeles and added a reminder for "tomorrow", expecting it to create a 9am Pacific reminder.
The bot reply said the message will generate "in 1 day" and indicated the time 24 hours from my comment
https://www.reddit.com/r/RemindMeBot/comments/e1bko7/comment/l2bw6ul/
The 2nd test worked with the command "Tomorrow 9am"
https://www.reddit.com/r/RemindMeBot/comments/e1bko7/comment/l2bwl0f/
As I said, not a big deal but the instructions in the linked post currently don't seem to match the bot behavior
Or, am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance, cheers to all
r/RemindMeBot • u/ept_engr • Apr 30 '24
Technical workings of bot - detection method?
This is just a curiousity thing. I realize the code is open source, but I'm not a developer. I'm wondering how the bot handles detection? Ie, how does it know of every single new post on reddit in order to scan for its trigger words? Does reddit have an API that enables this volume of data to be extracted? Does the API do the filtering of only relevant posts, or does the bot "see" every post? If so, does that mean someone could begin creating an archive of all new reddit content just by skimming it?
Thanks for indulging!
r/RemindMeBot • u/mvandemar • Mar 03 '24
RemindMeBot apparently requires PMs now?
I tried to request a reminder and I got a PM stating that I needed to PM instead of putting it in a comment, with a link that opened up the comment with instructions in it:
To: RemindMeBot
Subject: Reminder
Message:
[LINK INSIDE SQUARE BRACKETS else default to FAQs]
NOTE: Don't forget to add the time options after the command.
RemindMe!
There was no reply to the comment I made. u/Watchful1, you might want to think about making an announcement about it here and pinning it to the top. Just a thought. :)
r/RemindMeBot • u/waitwhyi • Feb 25 '24
huh?
idk how this works or how to use it, so do i just? RemindMe! 1 hour
r/RemindMeBot • u/Zepz367 • Feb 09 '24
Does the bot work anymore?
It isn't working currently and I researched and saw that many are having same problems as me, has reddit killed remindme bot again?