diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index ab36905..34efecb 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -14,6 +14,19 @@ Tit-bits ----------- - If you fill in your user/passwd in your reddit_api then you won't be asked for login details when you run the program! Otherwise you'll be prompted every time. +Cron examples +----------- +- Run crontab -e to edit your cron file. If you have access to something like vixie-cron then each user can have their own personal cron job! + +- Run every hour on the hour + `0 * * * * cd /home/$USER/Shreddit/; ./shreddit` + +- Run at 3am every morning + `0 3 * * * cd /home/$USER/Shreddit/; ./shreddit` + +- Run once a month on the 1st of the month + `0 0 1 * * cd /home/$USER/Shreddit/; ./shreddit` + Caveats ----------- - Only your previous 1,000 comments are accessable on Reddit. So good luck deleting the others. There may be ways to hack around this via iterating using sorting by top/best/controversial/new but for now I am unsure. I believe it best to set the script settings and run it as a cron job and then it won't be a problem unless you post *a lot*