script to scrape reddit's favorite books

gistfile1.py

import urllib2
import json

# grab data
raw_data = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/lol8l/time_for_a_new_reddits_favorite_books_thread/.json').read()
thread_data = json.loads(raw_data)[1]
toplevel_comments = thread_data['data']['children']

# extract books, upvotes and downvotes
votes = dict()
for book in toplevel_comments:
	try:
		book_name = book['data']['body']
		book_upvotes = book['data']['ups']
		book_downvotes = book['data']['downs']
		votes[book_name] = (book_upvotes, book_downvotes)
	except KeyError:
		break

# create a dictionary sorted by upvotes
votes_by_up = reversed(sorted(votes.items(), key = lambda t: t[1][0]))

# print
for item in votes_by_up:
	book_name, votes = item
	book_upvotes, book_downvotes = votes
	print(book_name + ' -- ' + str(book_upvotes) + ' upvotes, ' +
		str(book_downvotes) + ' downvotes')