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

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/rly0nheart/reddit-post-scraping-tool.git

2. Move to reddit-post-scraping-tool directory

cd reddit-post-scraping-tool

3. Install dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Windows GUI

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

Usage

python3 reddit-post-scraping-tool.py --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)