Move feed and Praw config to settings.py

README.md

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ $ source env/bin/activate
 (env) $ pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```
 
-Configure Praw for your Reddit account:
+Configure Praw for your Reddit account (optional):
 
 * Go to https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps
 * Click "Create app"
@@ -44,16 +44,14 @@ Configure Praw for your Reddit account:
 * Description: blank
 * About URL: blank
 * Redirect URL: your GitHub profile
-* Submit, copy the client ID and client secret into `praw.ini`:
+* Submit, copy the client ID and client secret into `settings.py` below
 
 ```text
-(env) $ vim praw.ini
+(env) $ vim settings.py.example
-[bot]
-client_id=paste here
-client_secret=paste here
-user_agent=script by github/your-username-here
 ```
 
+Edit it and save it as `settings.py`.
+
 Now you can run the server:
 
 ```text

apiserver/.gitignore

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ ENV/
 # DB
 db.sqlite3
 
-praw.ini
+settings.py
 data.db
 data.db.bak
 data/archive/*

apiserver/feed.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import requests
 import time
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
+import settings
 from feeds import hackernews, reddit, tildes, manual
 
 OUTLINE_API = 'https://api.outline.com/v3/parse_article'
@@ -17,9 +18,15 @@ TWO_DAYS = 60*60*24*2
 
 def list():
     feed = []
-    feed += [(x, 'hackernews') for x in hackernews.feed()[:15]]
+    if settings.NUM_HACKERNEWS:
-    feed += [(x, 'reddit') for x in reddit.feed()[:10]]
+        feed += [(x, 'hackernews') for x in hackernews.feed()[:settings.NUM_HACKERNEWS]]
-    feed += [(x, 'tildes') for x in tildes.feed()[:5]]
+
+    if settings.NUM_REDDIT:
+        feed += [(x, 'reddit') for x in reddit.feed()[:settings.NUM_REDDIT]]
+
+    if settings.NUM_TILDES:
+        feed += [(x, 'tildes') for x in tildes.feed()[:settings.NUM_TILDES]]
+
     return feed
 
 def get_article(url):

apiserver/feeds/reddit.py

@@ -12,18 +12,24 @@ from praw.exceptions import PRAWException
 from praw.models import MoreComments
 from prawcore.exceptions import PrawcoreException
 
+import settings
 from utils import render_md, clean
 
-SUBREDDITS = 'Economics+AcademicPhilosophy+DepthHub+Foodforthought+HistoryofIdeas+LaymanJournals+PhilosophyofScience+PoliticsPDFs+Scholar+StateOfTheUnion+TheAgora+TrueFilm+TrueReddit+UniversityofReddit+culturalstudies+hardscience+indepthsports+indepthstories+ludology+neurophilosophy+resilientcommunities+worldevents'
-
 SITE_LINK = lambda x : 'https://old.reddit.com{}'.format(x)
 SITE_AUTHOR_LINK = lambda x : 'https://old.reddit.com/u/{}'.format(x)
 
-reddit = praw.Reddit('bot')
+if settings.NUM_REDDIT:
+    reddit = praw.Reddit(
+        client_id=settings.REDDIT_CLIENT_ID,
+        client_secret=settings.REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET,
+        user_agent=settings.REDDIT_USER_AGENT,
+    )
+
+    subs = '+'.join(settings.SUBREDDITS)
 
 def feed():
     try:
-        return [x.id for x in reddit.subreddit(SUBREDDITS).hot()]
+        return [x.id for x in reddit.subreddit(subs).hot()]
     except KeyboardInterrupt:
         raise
     except PRAWException as e:

apiserver/praw.ini.example

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-[bot]
-client_id=
-client_secret=
-user_agent=

apiserver/settings.py.example

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# QotNews settings
+# edit this file and save it as settings.py
+
+# Feed Lengths
+# Number of top items from each site to pull
+# set to 0 to disable that site
+NUM_HACKERNEWS = 15
+NUM_REDDIT = 10
+NUM_TILDES = 5
+
+# Reddit account info
+# leave blank if not using Reddit
+REDDIT_CLIENT_ID = ''
+REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET = ''
+REDDIT_USER_AGENT = ''
+
+SUBREDDITS = [
+    'Economics',
+    'AcademicPhilosophy',
+    'DepthHub',
+    'Foodforthought',
+    'HistoryofIdeas',
+    'LaymanJournals',
+    'PhilosophyofScience',
+    'PoliticsPDFs',
+    'Scholar',
+    'StateOfTheUnion',
+    'TheAgora',
+    'TrueFilm',
+    'TrueReddit',
+    'UniversityofReddit',
+    'culturalstudies',
+    'hardscience',
+    'indepthsports',
+    'indepthstories',
+    'ludology',
+    'neurophilosophy',
+    'resilientcommunities',
+    'worldevents',
+]