Andrew-Shay / subreddit-monitor

Monitors a subreddit and prints a message when a new thread appears

Subreddit Monitor

This is just a really simple script that I was testing. It will be used in a larger project.
It simply:

1. Gets the RSS feed of multiple subreddits eg https://www.reddit.com/r/python/new/.json
2. Grabs the ID of the newest thread
3. Prints a message and performs an action when a newer thread appears
4. Sleeps 5 seconds
5. Repeats

This project is not pip installable

Configure

One or more subreddits can be monitored.
This is controlled via reddit_data.json. It maps a name of a subreddit to the last id that was recorded.
By default the file should be named reddit_data.json and be in the cwd.
This will be automatically rewritten when new data is found.

[
  {
    "last_id": null,
    "name": "news"
  },
  {
    "last_id": null,
    "name": "aww"
  }
]

Environment Variables

• SUBREDDIT_MONITOR_LOG controls logging level eg DEBUG, INFO, ERROR
• SUBREDDIT_MONITOR_SLEEP seconds to sleep before checking next subreddit eg 5, 120
• Warning: Anything less than 5 may cause errors
• SUBREDDIT_MONITOR_DATA absolute path to reddit data file eg /Users/foo.bar/Documents/reddit_data.json

Using this project

This is just a sample project, so you should download the source code and modify it to fit your needs.
Logic is in subreddit_monitor/__main__.py and you can simply modify _on_new_entry() to get started.

Requirements

Python 3.5 or 2.7
requests