How to check if post contains video
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Hello i am trying to check if a post contains video, for logging purposes. Currently using something to do the same for photos
# Access the Reddit post using its post ID
post_id = '16uzdpd' # Replace with the actual post ID
submission = reddit.submission(f'{post_id}')
# Function to download an image
def download_image(url):
response = requests.get(url)
if response.status_code == 200:
filename = os.path.basename(url)
with open(filename, 'wb') as file:
file.write(response.content)
print(f"Downloaded: {filename}")
return True # Return True if the image was downloaded
return False # Return False if the image was not downloaded
# Extract image URLs from the post's content
images_downloaded = False # Initialize a flag to track if any images were downloaded
if submission.is_self: # Check if the post is a self-post (text-only)
print("This is a text-only post.")
else:
# Check for image links in the post's URL and body
if submission.url.endswith(('.jpg', '.png', '.gif', '.jpeg')):
if download_image(submission.url):
images_downloaded = True
elif submission.selftext_html and '<img src="' in submission.selftext_html:
start_index = submission.selftext_html.find('<img src="') + len('<img src="')
end_index = submission.selftext_html.find('"', start_index)
image_url = submission.selftext_html[start_index:end_index]
if download_image(image_url):
images_downloaded = True
# Print the message only if images were downloaded
if images_downloaded:
print("Downloaded images saved in the current working directory.")
else:
print("No images were downloaded.")Describe alternatives you've considered
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I am going to use something like yt-dlp to download the mp4 but don't want to do that for every post as that is a lot of unnecessary usage(considering most posts wont have videos)
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