Scraping Reddit

When to use this skill

• •Fetching top/hot/new posts from a subreddit.
• •Summarizing community discussions.
• •Getting links and upvote counts for specific topics on Reddit.

Workflow

1. Preparation

• • Identify the target subreddit name (e.g., n8n, programing).
• • Define the number of posts needed (default is 3).
• • Ensure requests library is available in the environment.

2. Execution

1. •Run the reddit_scraper.py script with the subreddit name.
2. •Parse the JSON response provided by the script.
3. •Present the results to the user with titles, scores, and links.

Instructions

URL Construction

Always append .json to the subreddit URL to get the data without needing an API key for public subreddits: https://www.reddit.com/r/<subreddit>/top.json?limit=3&t=day

User-Agent Requirement

Reddit requires a custom User-Agent to avoid 429 (Too Many Requests) errors. Use a descriptive one like: User-Agent: AntigravityBot/1.0 by CarlosDoers

Resources

• •scripts/reddit_scraper.py: Python script for fetching and parsing the data.