redditscraper-deprec.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 = ""

original_counter = 100
counter = original_counter
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, 30))
 else:
 print(f"Error: {response.status_code}")
 counter = original_counter
 params = ""