Quick script for checking how many comments occurred in a month on a subreddit using pushshift.io

subreddit.py

import urllib.request, json


# https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/comment/search/?subreddit=btc&aggs=subreddit&size=0&after=2015-09-01&before=2016-01-01&author=!automoderator
doc_counts = {}
sub = 'btc'
for y in range(2011, 2020):
    for m in range(1, 13):
        if m == 12:
            nm = 1 # next month
            ny = y+1
        else:
            nm = m+1
            ny = y
        url = "https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/comment/search/?subreddit=%s&aggs=subreddit&size=0&after=%i-%02i-01&before=%i-%02i-01&author=!automoderator" % (sub, y, m, ny, nm)
        with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response:
            html = response.read().decode('utf-8')
            j = json.loads(html)
            try:
                doc_counts[(y, m)] = j['aggs']['subreddit'][0]['doc_count']
            except:
                doc_counts[(y, m)] = 0
            print("%i-%02i: %i" % (y, m, doc_counts[(y, m)]))