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reddit-post-scraping-tool/reddit-post-scraping-tool.py
2022-07-04 14:19:08 +02:00

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import logging
import argparse
import requests
#from pprint import pprint
from datetime import datetime
class postScraper:
def __init__(self, args):
self.session = requests.session()
self.session.headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.1 Safari/605.1.15'}
def Start(self):
response = self.session.get(f'https://reddit.com/r/{args.subreddit}/{args.listing}.json?limit={args.limit}&t={args.timeframe}').json()
total_posts = 0
found_posts = 0
for post in response['data']['children']:
total_posts += 1
if args.keyword.lower() in post['data']['selftext']:
found_posts += 1
print(f'\n\n[+] [post: {total_posts}] \'{args.keyword}\' found in body:')
self.getPosts(post)
elif args.keyword.lower() in post['data']['title']:
found_posts += 1
print(f'\n\n[+] [post: {total_posts}] \'{args.keyword}\' found in title:')
self.getPosts(post)
else:
pass
logging.info(f"Keyword ('{args.keyword}') was found in {found_posts}/{total_posts} {args.listing} posts from r/{args.subreddit}.")
# Getting posts
def getPosts(self, post):
post_data = {'Author': post['data']['author'],
'ID': post['data']['id'],
'Subreddit': post["data"]["subreddit_name_prefixed"],
'Visibility': post['data']['subreddit_type'],
#'Author': post["data"]["author_fullname"],
'Thumbnail': post["data"]["thumbnail"],
'Title': post["data"]["title"],
#'Flair': post["data"]["link_flair_text"],
'NSFW': post['data']['over_18'],
'Gilded': post['data']['gilded'],
'Upvotes': post["data"]["ups"],
'Upvote ratio': post["data"]["upvote_ratio"],
'Downvotes': post["data"]["downs"],
'Awards': post["data"]["total_awards_received"],
'Top award': post['data']['top_awarded_type'],
'Is crosspostable?': post['data']['is_crosspostable'],
'Score': post["data"]["score"],
'Category': post['data']['category'],
'Domain': post["data"]["domain"],
'Created': post['data']['created'],
'Approved at': post['data']['approved_at_utc'],
'Approved by': post['data']['approved_by'],}
for key, value in post_data.items():
print(f" ├─ {key}: {value}")
print(post['data']['selftext']+"\n")
# Parsing command line arguments
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=f'reddit-post-scraping-tool — by Richard Mwewa | https://about.me/rly0nheart', epilog=f'Given a subreddit name and a keyword, this script will return all top (by default) posts that contain the specified word.')
parser.add_argument('-k','--keyword',help='kewyword', required = True)
parser.add_argument('-s','--subreddit',help='subreddit', required = True)
parser.add_argument('-c','--limit',help='results limit (1-100) (default: %(default)s)', default=10, type=int)
parser.add_argument('-l', '--listing', default='top', const='top', nargs='?', choices=['controversial', 'hot', 'best', 'new', 'rising'], help='listings: controversial, hot, best, new, rising (default: %(default)s)')
parser.add_argument('-t','--timeframe', default='all', const='all', nargs='?', choices=['hour', 'day', 'week', 'month', 'year'], help='timeframe: hour, day, week, month, year (default: %(default)s)')
args = parser.parse_args()
start_time = datetime.now()
logging.basicConfig(format=f'[%(asctime)s] %(message)s', datefmt=f'%H:%M:%S%p', level=logging.DEBUG)
if __name__ == '__main__':
try:
postScraper(args).Start()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
logging.warning(f'Process interrupted with (Ctrl+C).')
except Exception as e:
logging.error(f'An error occured: {e}')
logging.info(f'Finished in {datetime.now()-start_time} seconds.')