Quick script to remove ham from the modqueue en-mass

remove-ham.py

#/usr/bin/env python3

import json
import urllib.request
import time
import re
import signal
import sys
from urllib.parse import urlencode
import http.cookiejar

try:
    from settings import *
except:
    USERNAME = 'this'
    PASSWORD = 'shouldbe'
    SUBREDDIT = 'obvious' # use 'mod' for all of them. DANGEROUS

def p(data, end='\n'):
    print(time.strftime('\r\033[K\033[2K[\033[31m%y\033[39m/\033[31m%m\033[39m/\033[31m%d'
        '\033[39m][\033[31m%H\033[39m:\033[31m%M\033[39m:\033[31m%S\033[39m] ') + data, end=end)

def sigint_handler(signal, frame):
    '''Handles ^c'''
    p('Recieved SIGINT! Exiting...')
    sys.exit(0)

class Reddit(object):
    """Base class to perform the tasks of a redditor."""

    def __init__(self, username, password):
        self.username = username
        self.password = password
        self.cj = http.cookiejar.CookieJar()
        self.opener = urllib.request.build_opener(urllib.request.HTTPCookieProcessor(self.cj))
        self.opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'remove-ham.py v1')]
        self._login()

    def _request(self, url, body=None):
        if body is not None:
            body = urlencode(body).encode('utf-8')
        with self.opener.open(url, data=body) as w:
            time.sleep(2)
            return json.loads(w.read().decode('utf-8'))

    def _login(self):
        p("Logging in as {}.".format(self.username))
        body = {'user': self.username, 'passwd': self.password, 'api_type': 'json'}
        resp = self._request('https://www.reddit.com/api/login', body)
        self.modhash = resp['json']['data']['modhash']

    def post(self, url, body):
        """Sends a POST to the url and returns the json as a dict."""

        if 'api_type' not in body:
            body['api_type'] = 'json'

        body['uh'] = self.modhash

        return self._request(url, body)

    def get(self, url):
        """Sends a GET to the url and returns the json as a dict."""
        if '.json' not in url:
            url += '.json'
        return self._request(url)




def main():
    r = Reddit(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
    removed_count = 0
    while True:
        p('Retrieving modqueue...', end='')
        things = r.get('http://reddit.com/r/{}/about/modqueue.json'.format(SUBREDDIT))
        things = things['data']['children']
        if things:
            for thing in things:
                thing = thing['data']
                p('Removing: {}'.format(thing['name']))
                body = {'r': thing['subreddit'], 'id': thing['name'],
                    'executed': 'remove', 'spam': 'false'}
                r.post('http://www.reddit.com/api/remove', body)
                removed_count += 1
        else:
            break
    p('Removed {} things from /r/{}'.format(removed_count, SUBREDDIT))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, sigint_handler)
    main()