import logging logging.basicConfig( format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s', level=logging.DEBUG) if __name__ == '__main__': import sys sys.path.insert(0,'.') import praw from praw.exceptions import PRAWException from praw.models import MoreComments from prawcore.exceptions import PrawcoreException from utils import render_md SUBREDDITS = 'Economics+Foodforthought+Futurology+TrueReddit+business+science+technology' 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') def feed(): try: return [x.id for x in reddit.subreddit(SUBREDDITS).hot()] except PRAWException as e: logging.error('Problem hitting reddit API: {}'.format(str(e))) return [] except PrawcoreException as e: logging.error('Problem hitting reddit API: {}'.format(str(e))) return [] def comment(i): if isinstance(i, MoreComments): return False if '[removed]' in i.body or '[deleted]' in i.body: return False if i.author and i.author.name == 'AutoModerator': return False c = {} c['author'] = i.author.name if i.author else '[Deleted]' c['score'] = i.score c['date'] = i.created_utc c['text'] = render_md(i.body) c['comments'] = [comment(j) for j in i.replies] c['comments'] = list(filter(bool, c['comments'])) return c def story(ref): try: r = reddit.submission(ref) if not r: return False s = {} s['author'] = r.author.name if r.author else '[Deleted]' s['author_link'] = SITE_AUTHOR_LINK(r.author) s['score'] = r.score s['date'] = r.created_utc s['title'] = r.title s['link'] = SITE_LINK(r.permalink) s['url'] = r.url s['comments'] = [comment(i) for i in r.comments] s['comments'] = list(filter(bool, s['comments'])) s['num_comments'] = r.num_comments if r.selftext: s['text'] = render_md(r.selftext) return s except PRAWException as e: logging.error('Problem hitting reddit API: {}'.format(str(e))) return False except PrawcoreException as e: logging.error('Problem hitting reddit API: {}'.format(str(e))) return False # scratchpad so I can quickly develop the parser if __name__ == '__main__': print(feed()) print(reddit.submission(feed()[0]).permalink) print() print(story('cuozg4'))