gistfile1.txt

import urllib.request
import json
import datetime

def get_comments():
    url = "https://www.reddit.com/r/all/comments.json?limit=100"
    hdr = { 'User-Agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64)' }

    req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=hdr)
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
    return json.loads(response.read())
    
    
comment_buffer = {}
new_comments = 0
last_stats = datetime.datetime.now()


def stream_tick():
    global comment_buffer, new_comments
    
    j = get_comments()
    comments = j['data']['children']
    
    for c in comments:
        comment = c['data']
        comment_id = comment['id']
        if comment_id not in comment_buffer:
            new_comments+=1
            comment_buffer[comment_id] = comment
            
            
    now = datetime.datetime.now()
    if (now - last_stats).total_seconds() >=  1:
        print(new_comments)
        new_comments = 0
        
        
while(True):
   stream_tick()