Reddit Post Scraping Tool

Given a subreddit name and a keyword, this script will return all posts from a specified listing (default is 'top') that contain the provided keyword.

Installation

Note

The program has both a CLI and a GUI

Installing the CLI

Note

The cli is cross-platform and in order to use it, you will need to have Python installed on your system

Install rom PyPI

pip install reddit-post-scraping-tool

Install the dev version from GitHub

Note

The dev version might be unstable

pip install git+https://github.com/rly0nheart/reddit-post-scraping-tool

Usage

reddit_post_scraping_tool --keyword [keyword] --subreddit [subreddit name (without 'r/')]

Optional arguments

Option	Argument	Choices	Usage
-l/--listing	LISTING	[controversial, hot, best, new, rising]	listing: controversial, hot, best, new, rising (default: top)
-c/--limit	NUMBER	1-100	results limit (default: 10)
-t/--timeframe	TIMEFRAME	[hour, day, week, month, year]	timeframe: hour, day, week, month, year (default: all)

Setting up the GUI

Note

The GUI is only available for Windows systems

Prerequisites

• .NET 6.0 or later

1. Download the GUI from the releases page

You can download the latest release of the gui from here

2. Extract the downloaded .zip

3. Run the binary

Once extracted, you can then run the program by double clicking on a binary named RPST.exe