redditscraper_fm.py

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

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",
    "askMRP",
    "ForeverAloneWomen",
]
url_template = "https://www.reddit.com/r/{}/.json?t=all{}"


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

params = ""
str_log = []
original_counter = 10000
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()
            posts = data["data"]["children"]
            print(f"Got {len(posts)} posts")
            for post in posts:
                pdata = post["data"]
                post_id = pdata["id"]
                title = pdata["title"]
                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}")
                # prints for debugging
                # 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")

            try:
                params = "&after=" + data["data"]["after"]
            except:
                print(
                    "No more posts, broke on ", subreddit, "with counter at ", counter
                )
                # write this log to a txt file
                str_log.append(
                    "No more posts, broke on "
                    + subreddit
                    + "with counter at "
                    + str(counter)
                )
                break
            counter -= 1
            time.sleep(random.randint(1, 45))
        else:
            print(f"Error: {response.status_code}")

    counter = original_counter
    params = ""