The Pain of Making an Automated Bot (AntiGifBot)
The ambition
I needed a way to get into Python programming. I wanted to learn some of idiosyncrasies of the language and the best way to learn is to throw into a project. I frequent the content aggregator known as Reddit (I know, you've probably never heard of it before‽) but often when remote from an internet connection that I can use. Users of Reddit often find sharing .gifs of the animated variety reasonably entertaining, as do I. However a single animated .gif is usually between 1MB and 20MB's which will push me over my meager data limit rather quickly.