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citostyle/extract_submissions.py

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Retrieve Reddit posts from a particular subreddit using the `praw` Python library
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extract_submissions.py
def extract_submissions(client_id, client_secret, user_agent, subreddit_name):
reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id=client_id, client_secret=client_secret, user_agent=user_agent)
subreddit = reddit.subreddit(subreddit_name)
submissions = [{'id': s.id, 'title': s.title, 'upvotes': s.ups, 'downvotes': s.downs, 'href': s.permalink, 'number_of_comments': s.num_comments, 'content': s.selftext}
for s in subreddit.hot(limit=None)]
return submissions
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