So I’m really into gaming (obviously) and especially like the “Photo mode” a lot of games provide these days. Plenty of these in-game pictures are shared on Reddit, which is great, but I was somewhat frustrated that most of them are scattered over dozens of subs. That’s why I came up with the idea to create a dedicated sub which centralizes all these pieces of art: r/GamePhotoModePorn.

I wasn’t going to do this manually of course, so I started looking into the possibility of creating a bot that would do all the hard work for me.

The boring part: research

The first thing I had to find out was if the Reddit submissions containing pictures, had similarities or patterns. Developers thrive on patterns as they make our life easier. I started to scan several subs and noticed two…