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List top stories from subreddits within your console
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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
import json | |
import urllib2 | |
running = True | |
hdr = { 'User-Agent' : 'Someone is browsing reddit on their console' } | |
print "`exit` exits" | |
while running: | |
sub = str(raw_input("Enter a subreddit: ")) | |
if sub == "exit": | |
running = False | |
continue | |
# Make the call | |
try: | |
req = urllib2.Request('http://reddit.com/r/'+ sub + '.json', headers=hdr) | |
response = urllib2.urlopen(req) | |
data = json.loads(response.read()) | |
except urllib2.HTTPError, err: | |
print "Fetch failed" | |
continue | |
# print headers | |
headers = ('Num', 'Up', 'Down', 'Title') | |
for h in headers: | |
print "%-6s" % h, | |
print "\r" | |
print ("-"*6 + " ")*len(headers) | |
# loop first 10 json stories and print | |
for index, s in enumerate(data['data']['children'][0:10]): | |
line = s['data'] | |
columns = (index + 1, line['ups'], line['downs'], line['title']) | |
for c in columns: | |
print "%-6s" % c, | |
print "\r" | |
print "\n" | |
else: | |
print "Goodbye" |
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