Simple-Reddit-Scraper

A simple reddit images scraper written with PRAW (The Python Reddit API Wrapper).

Description

This script downloads the top images from a list of subreddits provided in a text file and downloads the images into a subdirectory named after the subreddit's name.

Note that this program was written as a part of a university project I had. Hence, this program will not be maintaned and could possibly have issues

Usage

• Make sure you have PRAW installed. To install using pip simply type in your terminal:

  pip install praw
  

• Replace the client_id and client_secret in the code with your own. Obtain your own here and refer to the reddit APIs documentation for further assistance.

• Type in python SimplePythonScraper.py --help in your terminal to check usage.

usage: SimplePythonScraper.py [-h] -r [subreddits list]
                              [-d [destination folder]] [-n [number of posts]]
                              [-s]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -r [subreddits list], --subreddits [subreddits list]
                        specify a text file containing list of subreddits.
  -d [destination folder], --dest [destination folder]
                        specify directory for saving the images (default =
                        current directory).
  -n [number of posts], --num_posts [number of posts]
                        specify number of posts to check (default = 50).
  -s, --sfw             add this to only download SFW posts.