IDSdarg / RES-Domain-Filterer

Scrapes domains from selected pages of MediaBiasFactCheck.com and adds them to Reddit Enhancement Suite's Domain Filters

Reddit Enhancement Suite Domain Filterer

This is a basic script I use to add biased media domains to Reddit Enhancement Suite's (RES) domain filter. For example, I used this to hide the most biased and untrustworthy news sources identified by Media Bias Fact Check (about 1200 unique domains) so that I no longer see them when browsing Reddit.

Features

• Provides domain filters for RES using MediaBiasFactCheck
  • Supports the following categories (use as many at a time as you'd like):
    • Left Bias
    • Center-Left Bias
    • Least Biased
    • Center-Right Bias
    • Right Bias
    • Pro-Science
    • Conspiract-Pseudoscience
    • Questionable Sources
    • Satire
• File load/save using tKinter
• Web scraping using Requests
• Auto-opens web browser for help saving/loading RES settings

Limitations

Note: All limitations only exist because this script did what it needed to do for me already; It's a one-time use script and I no longer need or use it.

• It's a little slow
  • Can be made better using multithreading/async
  • Might also be faster with something other than Beautiful Soup (Scrapy?)
• Some domains have errors
  • MediaBiasFactCheck doesn't list the URLs uniformly, which makes it a bit of a hassle to ensure they all scrape appropriately
    • As a quick "fix", a list of error domains is printed at the end of the script so that users can them manually
• Media Bias Fact Check - I don't know how accurate they are, but I chose them as the source due to a lack of efficient alternatives

Requires

• python 3

Usage

1. pip install -r requirements.txt
2. python RESdomainFilterer.py
3. Follow the prompts