sreddit 1.0.3

Web scraper for subreddits

sreddit

A simple tool for scraping information from subreddits.

Installation

To install, you can either Download the Pypi Package or,

pip install sreddit

To upgrade to the latest version,

pip install --upgrade sreddit

Usage

srtitles

Gets all unique titles from a subreddit.

from sreddit import SubRedditTitles

scraper = SubRedditTitles(subreddit="subreddit_name")
scraper.run()

srbodies

Gets all unique post bodies (i.e. descriptions) from a subreddit.

from sreddit import SubRedditBodies

scraper = SubRedditBodies(subreddit="subreddit_name")
scraper.run()

Optional Arguments

Argument	What it Does
keywords	Only includes content that has one or more of these keywords
show_progess	Whether or not to show scraping progress (i.e. number of titles found) in the terminal
make_db	If a database of the content found should be created after scraping
db_name	The name of the database to be created--must end in .db
scroll_time	Time to wait between scrolling down the page and finding elements.

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