vicrep / 551-p1

Script used for COMP551 F'17 project

COMP 515 P1 code and utils

Setup

Requires Python v3.6.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Please excuse the hardcoded secrets, trying to make our lives easier.

You will also need to setup a Reddit app too access their API. Once you have your app's client ID and secret, set them using the environment variables REDDIT_CLIENT_ID and REDDIT_SECRET, respectively.

Collecting data

import data_collection
import json

submissions_tree = get_submissions()

# serialize and store to file:
with open('output.json', 'w') as output_file:
    json.dump(submissions_tree,
              output_file
              outsort_keys=True,
              indent=4)

Formatting and curating data

import Data_Formatting

formatData('input.json', 'output.xml')