Package: pydevrant
Unofficial Python wrapper for the publicdevRantAPI.Based on the unofficial wrapper made by “danillouz”
(here) and API docs from
“abhn” (here).From the official site:devRant is a fun community for developers
to share and bond over their successes and frustrations with code, tech,
and life as a programmer. devRant is built by just one developer
(devRant: [@dfox](https://www.devrant.io/users/dfox) Twitter:
[@dfoxinator](https://twitter.com/DFoxinator)) and one designer
(devRant: [@trogus](https://www.devrant.io/users/trogus) Twitter:
[@tim_rogus](https://twitter.com/tim_rogus)) working on this project
nights and weekends.InstallationInstall usingpippip install pydevrantList of featuresCurrently, you can:Get user IDGet rantsGet a rant with commentsSearch rantsGet user profileLogin with username/passwordPost a rantVote a rantVote a comment(Note: search results are JSON-formatted data)ExamplePost a rantfrompydevrantimport*client=Auth()user=client.login("USERNAME","PASSWORD")#first argument is body (string)#second argument is tags (string, make sure comma seperated)#third argument is type (int, 1 for rant, 5 for collab)client.post("this is my rant, do you like it?","swift, react, js",1)Vote a rant/comment#first argument is type (rant/comment)#second argument is RANT_ID#third argument is value. (+1 for upvote, -1 for downvote)#(can only be +1 or -1. server rejects requests if any other data)client.vote("rant",1292812,+1)#for voting on a rantclient.vote("comment",1372121,+1)#for voting on a commentFind the top rants but limit the results to just onefrompydevrantimport*frompprintimportpprint#just for nice output on terminalelem=RantParser()result=elem.get_rants(sort="top",limit=1)pprint(result)The output will be something like this (some parts removed for brevity):{'news': {'action': 'grouprant',
          'body': 'Bad data loss story?',
          'footer': "Add tag 'wk98' to your rant",
          'headline': 'Weekly Group Rant',
          'height': 100,
          'id': 132,
          'type': 'intlink'},
 'rants': [{'attached_image': '',
            'created_time': 1474486614,
            'edited': True,
            'id': 194632,
            'num_comments': 155,
            'rc': 1,
            'rt': 1,
            'score': 2672,
            'tags': [],
            'text': 'It appears his main client had gone nuts with him because '
                    'they wanted him to make an internet toolbar (think '
                    "Ask.com) and he politely informed them toolbars doesn't "
                    "really exist anymore and it wouldn't work on things like "
                    'modern browsers or mobile devices.\n'
                    ....
                    ',
            'user_avatar': {'b': 'f99a66',
                            'i': 'v-18_c-3_b-3_g-m_9-1_1-2_16-13_3-5_8-2_7-2_5-2_12-2_6-11_10-9_2-42_15-11_11-4_4-2.jpg'},
            'user_avatar_lg': {'b': 'f99a66',
                               'i': 'v-18_c-1_b-3_g-m_9-1_1-2_16-13_3-5_8-2_7-2_5-2_12-2_6-11_10-9_2-42_15-11_11-4_4-2.png'},
            'user_id': 103918,
            'user_score': 4909,
            'user_username': 'peaam',
            'vote_state': 0}],
 'set': '5ac3b0a97b094',
 'settings': [],
 'success': True,
 'wrw': 98}