Python code to select winners for 10k MOON giveaway

python_comment_scraper.py

import csv
import praw
from praw.models import MoreComments

client_id='asdf'
client_secret='asdf'
username='asdf'
password='asdf'
user_agent='asdf'

# Connect to reddit
reddit = praw.Reddit(
    user_agent=user_agent,
    client_id=client_id,
    client_secret=client_secret,
    username=username,
    password=password,
)

# Get a praw submission object
url="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/r8b8zr/four_million_subscriber_10000_moon_giveaway/"
submission = reddit.submission(url=url)

# Block info https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/00000000000000000005bfd3649743e8909a1efe9bd66157621dbef80c4b2a0f
target = 731663
block_time = 1638844920

comments = []
# Cycle through all comments and add them to list if they were made before block was found
submission.comments.replace_more(limit=None)
for top_level_comment in submission.comments:
    if isinstance(top_level_comment, MoreComments):
        continue
    else:
        # Check to make sure that the comment is not edited and was created before bitcoin block 712948
        if top_level_comment.edited == False and top_level_comment.created_utc < block_time:
            # Remove commas, periods and hyphens and try to cast to int and add to list of comments
            try:
                comments.append([top_level_comment.author, int(top_level_comment.body.replace(',', '').replace('.', '').replace('-', '').split()[0]), top_level_comment.body])
            # If that fails just add permalink to list to check what it was
            except:
                comments.append([top_level_comment.author, top_level_comment.permalink, top_level_comment.body])

# Variables to hold top three guesses and users
winners = [(-1e9, None), (-1e9, None), (-1e9, None)]

with open('10kgiveaway.csv', 'w', newline='') as output:
    spamwriter = csv.writer(output, delimiter=',')
    for i in comments:
        # Write whole row (author / guess / full comment) to spreadsheet
        spamwriter.writerow(i)
        for idx, j in enumerate(winners):
            # If the absolute value of difference of current comment guess minus target is less than that of the current winner, then replace that winner
            if isinstance(i[1], int):
                if abs(i[1]-target) < abs(j[0] - target):
                    winners[idx] = (i[1], i[0])
                    break

print(winners)