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import praw | |
import csv | |
import datetime | |
# Create an app: https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps | |
# Use http://localhost:8080 as redirect uri | |
username = "" | |
password = "" | |
clientid = "" | |
clientsecret = "" | |
def writeheaders(): | |
f.writerow(["Number","Keyword","Title","Score","Comments","URL","Domain","Permalink","ID","Subreddit","CreatedDate"]) | |
def writefields(): | |
f.writerow([startNum, search.strip(), submission.title, | |
submission.score, submission.num_comments, | |
submission.url, submission.domain, submission.permalink, submission.id, | |
submission.subreddit, datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(submission.created).strftime('%m-%d-%Y')]) | |
reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id=clientid, | |
client_secret=clientsecret, | |
password=password, | |
user_agent='Reddit search data extractor by /u/' + username + '', | |
username=username) | |
print("Authentication for " + str(reddit.user.me()) + " is verified. Proceeding.\r\n") | |
outfilename = input("Enter a CSV filename to output the data to (e.g., reddit-data.csv)\r\n") | |
search = input("Enter a search (e.g., 'how do you') or multiple searches delimited with commas:\r\n") | |
sortsub = input("How do you want to sort results? Enter relevance, hot, top, new, or comments.\r\n") | |
filtersub = input("Do you want to restrict to a certain subreddit? Enter 'Yes' or 'No'.\r\n") | |
search_list = search.split(',') | |
if(filtersub.lower()=="yes"): | |
subreddit = input("Enter the subreddit names delimited with commas (i.e., BigSEO):\r\n") | |
subreddit_list = subreddit.split(',') | |
file = open(outfilename, "w+", newline="\n", encoding="utf-8") | |
f = csv.writer(file) | |
writeheaders() | |
for subs in subreddit_list: | |
for search in search_list: | |
startNum = 0 | |
for submission in reddit.subreddit(subs.strip()).search(search, sort=sortsub): | |
startNum += 1 | |
writefields() | |
print("Writing out posts results for the search '" + search.strip() + "' in 'r/" + subs.strip() + "'\r\n") | |
file.close | |
else: | |
file = open(outfilename, "w+", newline="\n", encoding="utf-8") | |
f = csv.writer(file) | |
writeheaders() | |
for search in search_list: | |
startNum = 0 | |
for submission in reddit.subreddit('all').search(search.lower(), sort=sortsub): | |
startNum += 1 | |
writefields() | |
print("Writing out posts results for the search '" + search.strip() + "' in 'r/all'\r\n") | |
file.close |
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