wsb.py

import praw
import requests
import simplejson
from datetime import datetime
from praw.models import MoreComments
from time import sleep
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1
from config import (api_key, 
                    secret, 
                    oath_token, 
                    oath_secret,
                    client_id,
                    client_secret)

# Initializes Reddit API
reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id=client_id,
                    client_secret=client_secret,
                    user_agent='wallstreetbets')

# Authentication for Ally API
auth = OAuth1(api_key, secret, oath_token, oath_secret)

# Gets submission
submission = reddit.submission(id='g48v33')

# Top level comments only
submission.comments.replace_more(limit=None)

# Iterates through each top level comment
for comment in submission.comments:
    # Splits comment into list of words
    option = comment.body.upper().split()
    ticker = ''

    # Only gets comments with 3 parts
    if len(option) == 3:
        # Ticker
        if option[0][0] == '$':
            ticker += option[0][1:]
        else:
            ticker += option[0]
        
        # Date
        date = option[2].split('/')
        if len(date) == 3:
            ticker += date[2][0:2]
            ticker += date[0].zfill(2)
            ticker += date[1].zfill(2)

            # Direction
            if option[1][-1] == 'C':
                ticker += 'C'
            elif option[1][-1] == 'P':
                ticker += 'P'
            else:
                break

            # Strike
            strike = ''
            if option[1][0] == '$':
                strike = option[1][1:-1]
            else:
                strike = option[1][0:-1]
            
            if '.' in strike:
                idx = strike.index('.')
                ticker += strike[0:idx].zfill(5)
                ticker += strike[idx+1:].zfill(3)
            else:
                ticker += strike.zfill(5) + '000'
    
            try:
                print(comment.body)
                print(ticker)
                url = f'https://api.tradeking.com/v1/market/ext/quotes.json?symbols={ticker}'
                response = requests.get(url, auth=auth).json()
                print(response['response']['quotes']['quote']['ask'])
                print()
                sleep(0.5)
            except KeyError:
                pass
            except simplejson.errors.JSONDecodeError:
                pass

Here's a regex instead:

pattern = r"(?P<ticker>[a-z]+)\s+(?P<strike>\d+)\s?(?P<type>c|p)\s+(?P<date>\d{1,2}\/\d{1,2}\/\d{1,2})"

https://rubular.com/r/mjGWlpU5gMoNzI

Thanks so much man! I really appreciate it :D