reddit-regex-counter 0.0.2

Count the number of regex matches within a subreddit

reddit-regex-counter

Count the number of regular expression matches within a subreddit.

Description

This package is a wrapper for psaw. It allows the user to easily count the number of matches of a regular expression within a certain period of time within a subreddit. The regular expression matches are stored in a dictionary, with the matches themselves being the keys, and the number of occurrences as the values.

Installation

To download and install directly from pypi, run the following command:

pip3 install reddit-regex-counter

Alternatively, to directly install from the Github resource repository, please first clone this repository, then run:

pip3 install .

Usage

usage: reddit-regex-counter [-h] [-s START] [-e END] -n NAME -p PATTERN

Count the number of regex matches within a subreddit

optional arguments:
-h, --help            show this help message and exit
-s START, --start START
                        The starting date of the search period, in the format
                        of %Y-%m-%d (e.g. 2020-01-31)
-e END, --end END     The starting date of the search period, in the format
                        of %Y-%m-%d (e.g. 2020-02-01)
-n NAME, --name NAME  The name of the subreddit
-p PATTERN, --pattern PATTERN
                        The regular expression pattern for matching

Example Output

$ reddit-regex-counter \
    -s 2020-05-17 \
    -e 2020-05-18 \
    -n news \
    -p "\b[A-Z]{3}\b"
Match:  Count:
USA     59
PPP     58
NOT     52
AND     40
CEO     35
YOU     32
GOP     32
THE     31
WHO     29
CNN     28
CCP     27
PPE     27
CIA     23
ALL     22
LOL     19
FBI     18
...

License

reddit-regix-counter - count the number of regex matches within a subreddit

Copyright (C) 2020  Fufu Fang

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