The snooper from nicholasdollick

snooper's Introduction

Reddit Post Analyzer

Installation

⚠ API keys and Python2.7 or are newer are required.

To generate API keys, create a 'script' at: https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps/

Next, create a file named secrets.py in the same folder as snooper.py. The file contents should appear as followed:

username  = 'your account username'
password  = 'your account password'
client_id = 'generated client id'
secret    = 'generated secret key'

Finally, install requirements using:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

usage: snooper.py -n <screen_name> [options]
options:
-h --help             - show this help message and exit
-a --all              - gather dataset of both comments and posts
-p --posts            - gather dataset of user's submitted posts
-c --comments         - gather dataset of user's comments
-nc --no-color        - turns off colored output
-l --limit            - set a max amount of posts collected (default=1000)
--new                 - gather dataset from posts sorted by new (default=top posts)
-utc --utc-offset     - offset time information to allign with timezone(+- UTC)
-v --verbose          - allow verbose analysis of collected data
-vn --verbose_num     - use in conjunction with -v to limit the amount of data returned (default=5)
--get                 - collect all comments and posts from supplied subreddit
-ng --no-graph        - disable printing of graph analyzation

Examples: 
snooper.py -n mctesty
snooper.py -n mctesty -a --new -l 100
snooper.py -n mctesty -utc -5 -nc -p