recent_reddit_posts.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib2
import json

last_timestamp_utc = 0
reddit_api = 'https://www.reddit.com/r/opendirectories/new.json?sort=new'
page_request = urllib2.urlopen(reddit_api)
page_content = json.loads(page_request.read())
posts = page_content['data']['children']
# API results are in order of newest to oldest, but we want to
# itterate over them from oldest to newest, so we reverse the
# order of the list here
posts.reverse()
# Check each post in the list of posts the API gave us
for i in posts:
    # Skip posts from before our last post timestamp
    if i['data']['created_utc'] <= last_timestamp_utc:
        #print "Skipped: Presumably old post: " + str(i['data']['created_utc'])
        continue
    # Skip posts that are marked NSFW
    if i['data']['over_18']:
        #print "Skipped: Post is NSFW"
        continue
    # Skip if the post is a meta post
    if i['data']['is_self']:
        #print "Skipped: Post is metapost (self)"
        continue
    post_url = i['data']['url']
    #print 'Valid post url: ' + post_url
    print post_url
    last_timestamp_utc = i['data']['created_utc']