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Thomas-Kristoffer Assignment

Part 1

• You must first retrieve the top 100 scoring posts from https://old.reddit.com/top/?sort=top&t=all. You will need to walk through multiple pages, using the next button.
• Save the links in a list of Post objects. The Post object must contain:
  • The id of the post.
  • The title of the post.
  • The exact score of the post.
  • The subreddit the post was submitted to.

Part 2

What are the most popular subreddits in the top 100 posts?

• Find the frequency of all the subreddits in the 100 top posts. Store them in a dictionary where subreddit=>frequency.
• Sort the dictionary by descending value.
• Plot the frequencies on a bar chart, where the y-axis is the frequency, and the x-axis is the subreddit name.

Part 3

Search reddit using selenium.

Create a function that can retrieve the top n search results (posts) given a search_term.

def search_reddit(search_term, n):
   pass

remember to use old.reddit.com to aviod SPA.

If you get stuck, you can check out our solution here.