Updating sidebar content with PRAW

update-sidebar-praw.md

Updating reddit sidebar content with PRAW

PRAW is the AWESOME Reddit API Wrapper written in Python.

Download PRAW

pip install praw

Import PRAW

import praw

Get a handler to reddit, passing the user agent (important!)

r = praw.Reddit("sidebar updater by /u/helloworld")

Login

r.login("USERNAME","PASSWORD")

Define the subreddit name for use

sub = "subreddit"

Get the settings of the subreddit

settings = r.get_settings(sub)

Inside the settings object, there is a description field. This field will have the contents of the sidebar. Do whatever you want with it

sidebar_contents = settings['description']
sidebar_contents += "\n\nUpdated from script, yo!"

Update the settings

r.update_settings(r.get_subreddit(sub), description=sidebar_contents)

Go to the subreddit and marvel!

Would be nice if this still worked.

That's I thought...

reddit.subreddit(target_subreddit).wiki['config/sidebar'].edit(sidebar_content)