RedditAPI

Simple API for Reddit built using BeautifulSoup and Flask in Python.

Initial Setup

• Make sure you have python3 installed.
• Now we install pip as it makes it easier to download the latest version of Flask and BeautifulSoup globally. Execute the following command.

$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip

• Now we install a virtual environment using pip3

$ sudo pip3 install virtualenv 

Running the server

• Clone this repo and cd into it.

$ git clone https://github.com/Ashwin-Nikam/RedditAPI.git
$ cd RedditAPI

• Run the virtual environment and install all required files

$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• Now that venv is running, we have all the necessary libraries installed. We can now run the server by executing the following command:

$ python3 Main.py

Using the API

• Now that the server is running open any internet browser and type in the following URL:

http://127.0.0.1:5000

• You'll be taken to the welcome page of this basic API.

Types of request

Get hot posts

http://127.0.0.1:5000/gethot

Get top posts

http://127.0.0.1:5000/gettop

Get rising posts

http://127.0.0.1:5000/getrising

Tools and Technologies used

• Python
• HTML & CSS
• Flask
• BeautifulSoup

References

• http://melvin0008.github.io/blog/build-a-redditapi-using-python/