Opens front page on reddit for the given subreddit

reddit-open.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import argparse
import http.cookies
import io
import json
import pprint
import urllib.request
import webbrowser

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('-s', '--sub-reddit')
namespace = parser.parse_args()

url = 'http://www.reddit.com/'
subreddit = namespace.sub_reddit
if subreddit is not None:
    url += 'r/' + subreddit
url += '.json'

request = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={
    'User-Agent': "anacrolix's reddit-open.py",})

response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)

browser = webbrowser.get()
new = 1
for child in json.load(io.TextIOWrapper(response))['data']['children']:
    browser.open(child['data']['url'], new)
    new = 2