The motivation behind this bot is to showcase how you can create a reddit scraper bot. The application for this specific bot is to get the hot or new comments(topics) in a specific category.
Moreover, it can be configured to search for specific keywords and bring only relevant results.
Open up index.js and configure the subreddit to scrape from. See examples below for various ways to use it.
Example:
// index.js
// initialize(subreddit: String, options: Object)
// if no options are passed it defaults to { headless: false, devtools: true}
await reddit.initialize("smallbusiness", {
headless: false,
devtools: false
});// Get latest 25 topics in specific subreddit
const results = await reddit.get();
// Search the 'new' tab of subreddit and bring first 10 results
const results = await reddit.get({
type: "new",
number: 10
});
// Get up to 5 results
const results = await reddit.get({
limit: 5
});
// limit to 5 results matching keyword criteria
const results = await reddit.searchFor(["reminder", "appointment"]).get(5);
// Same as above in a more verbose way
const results = await reddit
.searchFor(["reminder", "appointment"])
.get({ limit: 5 });
// Get 100 topics and THEN filter by keywords
const results = await reddit.getLatest({
type: "hot",
number: 100,
keywords: ["appointment", "reminder"]
});
// Alias of .get()
const results = await reddit.getLatestHot();
// Alias of .get() configured for the 'new' tab in Reddit
const results = await reddit.getLatestNew();