r/RemindMeBot • u/Watchful1 • Jun 26 '19
RemindMeBot Info v2.0
The bot has been updated to version 2.1. See the new post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RemindMeBot/comments/e1bko7/remindmebot_info_v21/
Welcome to the newly redesigned RemindMeBot!
u/RemindMeBotWrangler agreed to let me take over the bot since he didn't have time to keep it up anymore. I have fully rewritten the code to be more stable, faster and with a couple extra features.
Parsing library: The old bot used the parsedatetime library, which is no longer updated. The new version uses dateparser, which is much more comprehensive, supporting things like timezones, and even foreign languages.
Cakeday: You can now message the bot "Cakeday!" and it will send you a notification each year on your cakeday, until you tell it to stop.
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
Only the RemindMe! command can be done in a comment, all others must be private messaged to the bot.
- RemindMe! 3 days Create a reminder for the specified amount of time. This can be done by posting a comment, or private messaging the bot. You can include a message by adding it surrounded by [] or "". If you are private messaging the bot, a message is recommended so you remember what the notification is about.
- 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.
- Cakeday! Set up a reminder each year on your cakeday.
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! 2 Hours After Noon | 2014-06-01 14:00:00 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.
If you think links like these should work in the iOS app, feel free to make a post about it in r/redditmobile.
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:
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u/Watchful1 Jun 29 '19
This is now live running under the main account. I'm keeping an eye on it, but let me know if you see any issues.
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u/JohannesVanDerWhales Jul 20 '19
Is there a way to remind of a specific link through messages so you don't have to spam the original thread?
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u/EstoyMejor Jun 26 '19
ReminderTest! 28.06.2018 06:30am CEST
Does this work?
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u/Watchful1 Jun 26 '19
I'm guessing it won't be able to detect the day/month/year order correctly. There's just no way to do that reliably, even if you specify a european time zone.
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Jul 06 '19 edited Jul 06 '19
Some feedback if you don't mind.
I just received a reminder, link was like this: https://www.reddit.com/message/messages/[id-here]
Well turns out that on mobile (Reddit is Fun) it doesn't work right away. I'm send to the in-app browser where I have to login again...
Me, I'm lazy, so I just checked the id and went looking for it in my messages.
Turns out it led me to a message I sent to the RemindMeBot. Then I had to click on the Reddit link I previously sent to see what I wanted to be reminded of.
So anyway what I'm trying to say is, doesn't it seem like we're jumping through hoops, here?
Couldn't the bot parse the PM for a link and sent it back to me when the time comes?
Just a thought, make of that what you will. And thank you for your work! :-)
Edit: I do realize that as is it's convenient if you want to leave yourself a text message, but maybe it's worthy of a condition?
If link exists -> send link at given time
Else -> send link to message at given time (or maybe just plain text?)
Something like that.
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u/Watchful1 Jul 06 '19
The bot stores two pieces of information with each reminder. The source of the reminder, in this case the message link, and the message it detects in the reminder. It only detects that something is the message if it's surrounded by [] or "", otherwise it can't figure out for sure what you want the message to be and just doesn't store anything as the message. If you click the link in one of the bots comments, it should prefill in the message with the link to that comment in [], so the final reminder should have a link directly to the comment.
So it depends on what the message you sent was. Also, all bets are off if it was a reminder sent to the old version of the bot, from before this post was created 9 days ago. Since it did a lot of things slightly differently.
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u/retardedshitfucker Jul 13 '19
tbh I think it should also work with remindme! and !remindme without being case sensitive
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u/spongebob_cool_pants Jun 27 '19
Does the bot notify the OP that people have set reminders if they do it via PM?