Perhaps I’ll update this with what’s been going in my life if there’s any interest. Anyway, I’ve been working with python and with a little help from \/r\/redditdev I designed a module to check regex (in this case, from IRC chatter) for a link to reddit and go get metadata about the link. This is for Skybot on Python 2.6 or 2.7.<\/p>\n
reddit_re = (r'.*((www\\.)?reddit\\.com\/r[^ ]+)', re.I)<\/p>\n @hook.regex(*reddit_re) jsonlink = match.group(0) + '.json' # retrieve JSON-ified version of link data = json.load(response) Perhaps I’ll update this with what’s been going in my life if there’s any interest. Anyway, I’ve been working with python and with a little help from \/r\/redditdev I designed a module to check regex (in this case, from IRC chatter) for a link to reddit and go get metadata about the link. This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RwV4-7b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}import json
\nimport urllib2
\nimport time
\nfrom util import hook
\nimport re<\/p>\n
\ndef reddit_url(match):<\/p>\n
\n req = urllib2.Request(jsonlink)
\n req.add_header('User-agent', 'Python\/Putyourbotnamehere-1.0') # Reddit wants us to use unique user-agents. OK.
\n response = urllib2.urlopen(req)<\/p>\n
\n submission = data[0]['data']['children'][0]['data'] # Dig down to the relevant bits.
\n self = submission[\"is_self\"]
\n if self == True:
\n url = 'http:\/\/redd.it\/' + submission[\"id\"]
\n else:
\n url = submission[\"url\"]
\n title = submission[\"title\"]
\n score = submission[\"score\"]
\n author = submission[\"author\"]
\n timeago = time.strftime(\"%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S\", time.gmtime(submission[\"created_utc\"]))
\n comments = submission[\"num_comments\"]
\n return '%s - \\x02%s\\x02 - posted by \\x02%s\\x02 %s GMT - %s points and %s comments' % (
\n url, title, author, timeago, score, comments)
\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"