redditscraper.py

import requests
import time
import random

"""This script is used to get many posts from the desired subreddit(s)"""

subreddit_list = [
    "theredpillrebooted",
    "RedPillWomen",
    "Feminism",
    "marriedredpill",
    "TheBluePill",
    "PurplePillDebate",
    "RedPillWives",
]
# url = f'https://www.reddit.com/r/{subreddit}/.json?t=all&limit=100'
url_template = "https://www.reddit.com/r/{}/.json?t=all{}"

# headers = {
#     'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3'
# }

headers = {"User-Agent": "Testing Bot Gundam Wing"}

# response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

params = ""

counter = 10
post_list = []

for subreddit in subreddit_list:
    while counter > 0:
        print(f"Getting posts with params: {params}")
        print("\n\n\n\n")
        url = url_template.format(subreddit, params)
        response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

        if response.ok:
            data = response.json()
            # save data to file
            # with open(f"reddit_{subreddit}_{counter}.json", "w") as f:
            #     f.write(response.text)
            posts = data["data"]["children"]
            print(f"Got {len(posts)} posts")
            for post in posts:
                # print(post["data"]["title"])
                pdata = post["data"]
                post_id = pdata["id"]
                title = pdata["title"]
                # url = pdata["url"]
                text = pdata.get("selftext")
                score = pdata["score"]
                author = pdata["author"]
                date = pdata["created_utc"]
                url = pdata.get("url_overridden_by_dest")
                print(f"{post_id}: {title} - {url}")
                # print("Keys are  ", pdata.keys())
                # post_list.append(
                #     {
                #         "id": post_id,
                #         "title": title,
                #         "text": text,
                #         "url": url,
                #         "score": score,
                #         "author": author,
                #         "date": date,
                #         "pdata": pdata,
                #     }
                # )
                post_list.append(
                    [subreddit, post_id, title, text, url, score, author, date, pdata]
                )
            print(f"Got {len(posts)} posts")
            # params = f"?after={data['data']['after']}"
            try:
                params = "&after=" + data["data"]["after"]
            except:
                print(
                    "No more posts, broke on ", subreddit, "with counter at ", counter
                )
                break
            counter -= 1
            time.sleep(random.randint(1, 45))
        else:
            print(f"Error: {response.status_code}")
    counter = 10
    params = ""