Reddit Place Script 2023

HELP WANTED!

This project now has many bugs and I have no ability to debug. More developers are wanted.

Confirmed Bugs:

• Nothing now

Thanks to everyone who contributed! r/place is now over!

About

This is a script to draw an image onto r/place (https://www.reddit.com/r/place/).

It has adapted r/place in 2023.

Features

• Support for multiple accounts.
• Determines the cooldown time remaining for each account.
• Detects existing matching pixels on the r/place map and skips them.
• Automatically converts colors to the r/place color palette.
• Easy(ish) to read output with colors.
• SOCKS proxy support.
• No client id and secret needed.
• Proxies from "proxies.txt" file.
• Tor support.

Requirements

• Python 3.10

macOS

If you want to use tor on macOS. you'll need to provide your own tor binary or install it via Homebrew using brew install tor, and start it manually.

Make sure to deactivate the "use_builtin tor" option in the config and configure your tor to use the correct ports and password.

Please note that socks proxy connection to tor doesn't work for the time being, so the config value is for an httpTunnel port

Get Started

Move the file 'config_example.json' to 'config.json'

Edit the values to replace with actual credentials and values

Note: Please use https://jsonlint.com/ to check that your JSON file is correctly formatted

{
	//Where the image's path is
	"image_path": "image.png",
	// [x,y] where you want the top left pixel of the local image to be drawn on canvas
	"image_start_coords": [741, 610],
	// delay between starting threads (can be 0)
	"thread_delay": 2,
	// array of accounts to use
	"workers": {
		// username of account 1
		"worker1username": {
			// password of account 1
			"password": "password",
			// which pixel of the image to draw first
			"start_coords": [0, 0]
		},
		// username of account 2
		"worker1username": {
			// password of account 2
			"password": "password",
			// which pixel of the image to draw first
			"start_coords": [0, 0]
		}
		// etc... add as many accounts as you want (but reddit may detect you the more you add)
	}
}

Notes

• Use .png if you wish to make use of transparency or non rectangular images
• If you use 2 factor authentication (2FA) in your account, then change password to password:XXXXXX where XXXXXX is your 2FA code.

Run the Script

Windows

start.bat or startverbose.bat

Unix-like (Linux, macOS etc.)

chmod +x start.sh startverbose.sh
./start.sh or ./startverbose.sh

You can get more logs (DEBUG) by running the script with -d flag:

python3 main.py -d or python3 main.py --debug

Multiple Workers

Just create multiple child arrays to "workers" in the .json file:

{
	"image_path": "image.png",
	"image_start_coords": [741, 610],
	"thread_delay": 2,

	"workers": {
		"worker1username": {
			"password": "password",
			"start_coords": [0, 0]
		},
		"worker2username": {
			"password": "password",
			"start_coords": [0, 50]
		}
	}
}

In this case, the first worker will start drawing from (0, 0) and the second worker will start drawing from (0, 50) from the input image.jpg file.

This is useful if you want different threads drawing different parts of the image with different accounts.

Other Settings

If any JSON decoders errors are found, the config.json needs to be fixed. Make sure to add the below 2 lines in the file.

{
	"thread_delay": 2,
	"unverified_place_frequency": false,
	"proxies": ["1.1.1.1:8080", "2.2.2.2:1234"],
	"compact_logging": true
}

• thread_delay - Adds a delay between starting a new thread. Can be used to avoid ratelimiting.
• unverified_place_frequency - Sets the pixel place frequency to the unverified account limit.
• proxies - Sets proxies to use for sending requests to reddit. The proxy used is randomly selected for each request. Can be used to avoid ratelimiting.
• compact_logging - Disables timer text until next pixel.
• Transparency can be achieved by using the RGB value (69, 42, 0) in any part of your image.
• If you'd like, you can enable Verbose Mode by adding --verbose to "python main.py". This will output a lot more information, and not neccessarily in the right order, but it is useful for development and debugging.
• You can also setup proxies by creating a "proxies" and have a new line for each proxies.

Tor

Tor can be used as an alternative to normal proxies. Note that currently, you cannot use normal proxies and tor at the same time.

"using_tor": false,
"tor_ip": "127.0.0.1",
"tor_port": 1881,
"tor_control_port": 9051,
"tor_password": "Passwort",
"tor_delay": 5,
"use_builtin_tor": true

The config values are as follows:

• Deactivates or activates tor.
• Sets the ip/hostname of the tor proxy to use
• Sets the httptunnel port that should be used.
• Sets the tor control port.
• Sets the password (leave it as "Passwort" if you want to use the default binaries.
• The delay that tor should receive to process a new connection.
• Whether the included tor binary should be used. It is preconfigured. If you want to use your own binary, make sure you configure it properly.

Note that when using the included binaries, only the tunnel port is explicitly set while starting tor.

If you want to use your own binaries, follow these steps:

• Get tor standalone for your platform here. For Windows just use the expert bundle. For macOS, you can use Homebrew to install tor: brew install tor.
• In your tor folder, create a file named torrc. Copy this into it.
• Search for ControlPort in your torrc file and uncomment it. Change the port number to your desired control port.
• Decide on the password you want to use. Run tor --hash-password PASSWORD from a terminal in the folder with your tor executable, with "PASSWORD" being your desired password. Copy the resulting hash.
• Search for HashedControlPassword and uncomment it. Paste the hash value you copied after it.
• Decide on a port for your httptunnel. The default for this script is 1881.
• Fill in your password, your httptunnel port and your control port in this script's config.json and enable tor with using_tor = true.
• To start tor, run tor --defaults-torrc PATHTOTORRC --HttpTunnelPort TUNNELPORT, with PATHTOTORRC being your path to the torrc file you created and TUNNELPORT being your httptunnel port.
• Now run the script and (hopefully) everything should work.

License for the included tor binary:

Tor is distributed under the "3-clause BSD" license, a commonly used software license that means Tor is both free software and open source: Copyright (c) 2001-2004, Roger Dingledine Copyright (c) 2004-2006, Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson Copyright (c) 2007-2019, The Tor Project, Inc. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
• Neither the names of the copyright owners nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Docker

A dockerfile is provided. Instructions on installing docker are outside the scope of this guide.

To build: After editing the config.json file, run docker build . -t place-bot. and wait for the image to build.

You can now run it with docker run place-bot

Contributing

See the Contributing Guide.