RedditEasy

RedditEasy is a rapidly-fast API wrapper for getting posts using the Reddit JSON API with both sync and async options

Install

To install RedditEasy, do:

pip install redditeasy

OR

python -m pip install redditeasy

OR (not recommended)

pip install git+https://github.com/MakufonSkifto/RedditEasy.git

Documentation

Docs can be found here

Async RedditEasy

Yes, there is an async version of RedditEasy. To use it, you need to use the Async classes. Which are AsyncSubreddit and AsyncUser

Here is a small example on using AsyncSubreddit: https://github.com/MakufonSkifto/RedditEasy/blob/main/examples/async_meme.py

You can and should use this in a discord.py bot. The normal classes could cause a blocking in an async program.

This will not work outside an async function whatsoever.

Usage

Without Reddit API client info

This method is not suggested as it may be slow and throw errors more often

import redditeasy
import datetime

# To get your Reddit API client info go to
# https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps
# and create an app

# For more detailed explanation, see this image: https://i.imgur.com/Ri13AQu.png


post = redditeasy.Subreddit()

postoutput = post.get_post(subreddit="dankmemes") # Subreddit name

# Formatted version of created_at
formatted_time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(postoutput.created_at).strftime("%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S UTC")

print(f"Posts Title: {postoutput.title}\n"
      f"Posts Content: {postoutput.content}\n"
      f"Posts Author: u/{postoutput.author}\n"
      f"Posts URL: {postoutput.post_url}\n"
      f"Spoiler?: {postoutput.spoiler}\n"
      f"Post Created At: {formatted_time}\n"
      f"Posts Upvote Count: {postoutput.score}\n"
      f"Posts Award Count: {postoutput.total_awards}\n"
      f"NSFW?: {postoutput.nsfw}\n"
      f"Post Flair: {postoutput.post_flair}\n"
      f"User Flair: {postoutput.author_flair}\n"
      f"Subreddit Subscribers: {postoutput.subreddit_subscribers}\n"
      f"Comment count: {postoutput.comment_count}\n"
      f"Is Media?: {postoutput.is_media}\n"
      f"Subreddit Name: r/{postoutput.subreddit_name}\n"
      f"Content Type: {postoutput.content_type}")

With Reddit API client info

import redditeasy
import datetime

# To get your Reddit API client info go to
# https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps
# and create an app

# For more detailed explanation, see this image: https://i.imgur.com/Ri13AQu.png


post = redditeasy.Subreddit(client_id="",            # Your client ID
                            client_secret="",        # Your client secret
                            user_agent=""            # Your user agent (ex: ClientName/0.1 by YourUsername")
                            )

postoutput = post.get_post(subreddit="dankmemes")    # Subreddit name

# Formatted version of created_at
formatted_time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(postoutput.created_at).strftime("%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S UTC")

print(f"Posts Title: {postoutput.title}\n"
      f"Posts Content: {postoutput.content}\n"
      f"Posts Author: u/{postoutput.author}\n"
      f"Posts URL: {postoutput.post_url}\n"
      f"Spoiler?: {postoutput.spoiler}\n"
      f"Post Created At: {formatted_time}\n"
      f"Posts Upvote Count: {postoutput.score}\n"
      f"Posts Award Count: {postoutput.total_awards}\n"
      f"NSFW?: {postoutput.nsfw}\n"
      f"Post Flair: {postoutput.post_flair}\n"
      f"User Flair: {postoutput.author_flair}\n"
      f"Subreddit Subscribers: {postoutput.subreddit_subscribers}\n"
      f"Comment count: {postoutput.comment_count}\n"
      f"Is Media?: {postoutput.is_media}\n"
      f"Subreddit Name: r/{postoutput.subreddit_name}\n"
      f"Content Type: {postoutput.content_type}")

More examples are in the examples folder

Getting Reddit API client info

To get your Reddit API client info go to https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps and create a script.

(You don't have to fill "redirect_uri")

Changelog

Changelog can be found here

Operating Systems

All of RedditEasy's versions were tested in Windows, Linux (Ubuntu) and MacOS

Errors

The module will raise redditeasy.exceptions.RequestError if there was an error with the request. Traceback will show the details about the error

The module will raise redditeasy.exceptions.EmptyResult if the given user / subreddit is empty

Issues

If you have any issues with RedditEasy, please report them via the issue tracker