/// <summary>
/// Create a campaign for the given parameters
/// </summary>
/// <param name="campaignUh">Reddit's campaign creation page modhash</param>
/// <param name="camp">Campaign to be created</param>
/// <returns>A status object stating whether the creation failed or succeeded</returns>
private RedditAdJson CreateCampaign(string campaignUh, Campaign camp)
{
var result = new RedditAdJson();
string postString =
$"link_id36={camp.Advertisement.RedditAdId}&targeting=subreddit&sr=&selected_sr_names={camp.TargetDetail}&country={camp.Location}®ion={camp.Location2}&metro=&mobile_os=&platform={camp.Platform}&undefined={camp.Start.AddDays(3).ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")}&total_budget_dollars={camp.Budget}&impressions={camp.Budget / 200 * 1000 * 100}&startdate={camp.Start.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")}&enddate={camp.End.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")}&cost_basis=cpm&bid_dollars={string.Format(CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-US"), "{0: 0.##}", camp.PricingCpm)}&is_new=true&campaign_id36=&campaign_name=&id=%23campaign&uh={campaignUh}&renderstyle=html";
var adUrl = "https://www.reddit.com/api/edit_campaign";
if (camp.BudgetOptionDeliverFast)
{
postString += "&no_daily_budget=on";
}
if (camp.OptionExtend)
{
postString += "&auto_extend=on";
}
var campaignRequest = WebRequest.Create(adUrl) as HttpWebRequest;
if (campaignRequest != null)
{
campaignRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8";
campaignRequest.Method = "POST";
campaignRequest.CookieContainer = Cookies;
campaignRequest.Accept = "application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01";
campaignRequest.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip |
DecompressionMethods.Deflate;
campaignRequest.UserAgent =
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36";
campaignRequest.Referer = "https://www.reddit.com/";
var customHeaders = campaignRequest.Headers;
customHeaders.Add("accept-language", "en;q=0.4");
customHeaders.Add("origin", "https://www.reddit.com");
customHeaders.Add("x-requested-with", "XMLHttpRequest");
var bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postString);
campaignRequest.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
using (var os = campaignRequest.GetRequestStream())
{
os.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
}
var campaignResponse = campaignRequest.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
if (campaignResponse != null && campaignResponse.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK)
{
using (var s = campaignResponse.GetResponseStream())
{
using (
// ReSharper disable once AssignNullToNotNullAttribute
var sr = new StreamReader(s, Encoding.GetEncoding(campaignResponse.CharacterSet))
)
{
var jsonString = sr.ReadToEnd();
result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <RedditAdJson>(jsonString);
}
}
}
}
return(result);
}
/// <summary>
/// Create an advertisement for the given parameters
/// </summary>
/// <param name="adUh">Reddit's advertisement creation page modhash</param>
/// <param name="ad">Advertisement to be created</param>
/// <returns>A status object stating whether the creation failed or succeeded</returns>
private RedditAdJson CreateAdvertisement(string adUh, Advertisement ad)
{
string postString =
$"uh={adUh}&id=%23promo-form&title={ad.Title}&kind=link&url={ad.Url}&thing_id=&text=&renderstyle=html";
var adUrl = "https://www.reddit.com/api/create_promo";
var result = new RedditAdJson();
if (ad.SendComments)
{
postString += "&sendreplies=on";
}
if (ad.DisableComments)
{
postString += "&disable_comments=on";
}
var promoRequest = WebRequest.Create(adUrl) as HttpWebRequest;
if (promoRequest == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(promoRequest));
}
promoRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8";
promoRequest.Method = "POST";
promoRequest.CookieContainer = Cookies;
promoRequest.Accept = "application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01";
promoRequest.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip | DecompressionMethods.Deflate;
promoRequest.UserAgent =
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36";
promoRequest.Referer = "https://www.reddit.com/";
promoRequest.Timeout = 15000;
var customHeaders = promoRequest.Headers;
customHeaders.Add("accept-language", "en;q=0.4");
customHeaders.Add("origin", "https://www.reddit.com");
customHeaders.Add("x-requested-with", "XMLHttpRequest");
var bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postString);
promoRequest.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
using (var os = promoRequest.GetRequestStream())
{
os.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
}
var promoResponse = promoRequest.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
if (promoResponse != null && promoResponse.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK)
{
using (var s = promoResponse.GetResponseStream())
{
// ReSharper disable once AssignNullToNotNullAttribute
using (var sr = new StreamReader(s, Encoding.GetEncoding(promoResponse.CharacterSet)))
{
result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <RedditAdJson>(sr.ReadToEnd());
}
}
}
return(result);
}
/// <summary>
/// Handle ads and campaigns processes
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sender"></param>
/// <param name="e"></param>
private async void BeginCreationButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
Log("INFO", "Beggining ad creation");
GeneralProgressBar.Visibility = Visibility.Visible;
foreach (var ad in Ads)
{
var errorMsg = string.Empty;
var error = false;
var imgPathText = ImagePathTextBox.Text;
var result = new RedditAdJson();
try
{
var task = Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
{
result = StartAdvertisementProcess(ad, imgPathText);
});
await task;
}
catch (AggregateException ae)
{
ae.Handle(x =>
{
if (x is FileNotFoundException)
{
errorMsg = x.Message;
error = true;
}
else
{
errorMsg = x.Message + " | " + x.StackTrace;
error = true;
}
return(error);
});
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
errorMsg = ex.Message + " | " + ex.StackTrace;
error = true;
}
if (error)
{
Log("ERROR", errorMsg);
}
else
{
if (result.Success)
{
ad.RedditAdId = result.Jquery[16][3].ToString().Split('/')[5].Remove(6);
Log("INFO", $"Ad #{ad.AdvertisementNumber} successfully created ({ad.RedditAdId})");
}
}
await Task.Delay(Convert.ToInt32(DelayPicker.Value));
}
Log("INFO", "Finished creating ads!");
// Update Reddit ad ID on campaigns list
foreach (var camp in Campaigns)
{
camp.Advertisement.RedditAdId =
Ads.Where(x => x.AdvertisementNumber == camp.Advertisement.AdvertisementNumber)
.Select(x => x.RedditAdId)
.First();
}
Log("INFO", "Beggining campaign creation");
foreach (var camp in Campaigns)
{
var errorMsg = string.Empty;
var error = false;
var result = new RedditAdJson();
try
{
var task = Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
{
result = StartCampaignProcess(camp);
});
await task;
}
catch (AggregateException ae)
{
ae.Handle(x =>
{
errorMsg = x.Message + " | " + x.StackTrace;
error = true;
return(error);
});
}
if (error)
{
Log("ERROR", errorMsg);
}
else
{
if (result.Success)
{
Log("INFO",
$"Campaign for ad ID {camp.Advertisement.RedditAdId} successfully created");
}
else
{
var msg = result.Jquery[14][3];
Log("ERROR",
$"Error creating campaign for ad ID {camp.Advertisement.RedditAdId}:{msg.ToString().Replace(Environment.NewLine, string.Empty).Replace("[", string.Empty).Replace("]", string.Empty).Replace("\"", string.Empty)}");
}
}
await Task.Delay(Convert.ToInt32(DelayPicker.Value));
}
GeneralProgressBar.Visibility = Visibility.Hidden;
Log("INFO", "Completed");
}