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Reddit Scraper

Fetches the top posts from the r/python subreddit via Reddit's JSON API and stores them in a local SQLite database (redditnews.db).

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Reddit Scraper

Fetches the top posts from the r/python subreddit via Reddit's JSON API and stores them in a local SQLite database (reddit_news.db).

Example

$ python -c "import grabnews; grabnews.reddit_get()"
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Each Inserted line means one top post from r/python was written to reddit_news.db. Re-running the script prints Updated for posts already in the database.

How to run on localhost

pip install requests
python -c "import grabnews; grabnews.reddit_get()"

Dependencies