red.py

Repository created to play around with the reddit api.

Requirements

• python 3
• praw (install using pip3 install praw)

Usage

• Update the .secrets/praw.sample.json file and save to .secrets/praw.json with your own api client id and secret. See https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps/ and register a script to get an id and secret of your own
• Alternatively, use a praw.ini file and set these values in the [DEFAULT] section
• Create a .secrets/user_agent.txt file to use as your user agent when accessing the api. Optionally, specify --user-agent on the command line

Run with ./red.py announcements to fetch the newest 100 posts from announcements and print the top 10 submitters.

Replace announcements with the subreddit of your choosing.

Detailed Usage

usage: red.py [-h] [--action {top_posters,stream}] [--log {DEBUG,INFO,WARN,ERROR}] [--user-agent USER_AGENT]
              [--cache] [--use-cache] [--topn n] [--fetch n] [--stream-time n]
              subreddit_list [subreddit_list ...]

Fetch the newest 100 posts from subreddit(s) and print top 10 submitters

positional arguments:
  subreddit_list        the subreddit(s) to get new posts from

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --action {top_posters,stream}
                        function of red to use
  --log {DEBUG,INFO,WARN,ERROR}
                        set the logging level
  --user-agent USER_AGENT
                        user agent override
  --cache               store the response from reddit in a file for later use
  --use-cache           use a previously stored response instead of retrieving posts from reddit
  --topn n              top n submitters to show
  --fetch n             fetch n posts (max 100)
  --stream-time n       stream posts for n seconds