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subreddit content scraper
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import requests | |
import string | |
link = 'https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkHumor/.json' | |
subreddit = requests.get(link, headers = {'User-agent': 'nexttechbot'}) | |
posts = subreddit.text.split() | |
post_list = [] | |
for post_header in posts: | |
if "https" in post_header: | |
post_header = post_header.replace("\"", "") | |
post_list.append(post_header[:-2]) | |
# print(post_list) | |
def getpost(link): | |
post_link = (link + '/.json') | |
post_page = requests.get(post_link, headers = {'User-agent': 'nexttechbot'}) | |
post_content = post_page.text.split() | |
title_index = (post_content.index("\"title\":")) | |
answer_index = (post_content.index("\"selftext\":")) | |
title = [] | |
answer = [] | |
title.append(post_content[title_index + 1] + " ") | |
answer.append(post_content[answer_index + 1] + " ") | |
title_index += 2 | |
answer_index += 2 | |
while "\"" not in post_content[title_index]: | |
title.append(post_content[title_index] + " ") | |
title_index += 1 | |
while "\"" not in post_content[answer_index]: | |
answer.append(post_content[answer_index] + " ") | |
answer_index += 1 | |
title.append(post_content[title_index]) | |
answer.append(post_content[answer_index]) | |
return((''.join(title)), (''.join(answer))) | |
with open("questions.txt", 'a') as qfile, open("answers.txt", 'a') as afile: | |
for link in post_list: | |
question, answer = getpost(link) | |
qfile.write(question + "\n") | |
afile.write(answer + "\n") |
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