redditJSON.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# ------------------------------ 
# Script to parse reddit json
# Usage $cat *.json | redditJSON.py
# ------------------------------ 

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')
import json
import datetime

for line in iter(sys.stdin.readline, ""):
    decode = json.loads(line)
    time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(int(decode['created_utc'])).strftime('%Y-%d-%m/%H:%M:%S')
    #subreddit = decode['subreddit']
    id = decode['id']
    url = decode['url']
    author = decode['author']
    title = decode['title']
    print time, id, url, author, title