Grawddit - Reddit Top Posts Scraper

Grawddit is a lightweight tool that fetches the top posts of the day from a specified subreddit on Reddit, focusing on those with the most upvotes.

Usage

1. Clone the Repository:

git clone https://github.com/nyx6965/grawddit.git
cd grawddit

2. Run the Project:

2.1 Native Golang environment

 go build
 grawddit -subreddit yourdesiredsubreddit -limit 10 -sort new

Replace yourdesiredsubreddit with the name of the subreddit you want to scrape. There is no support of scrapping images and videos yet. So that enter a subreddit the posts them.

2.2 Docker environment

docker build -t grawddit:latest .
docker run -v ./data:/app/data -t grawddit:latest

This requires docker to be installed on your machine. The data scraped by the tool is available in the data directory post run completion.

The subreddit argument works as follows

docker run -v ./data:/app/data -t grawddit:latest -subreddit yourdesiredsubreddit -limit 10 -sort new

Configuration

You can customize the project by modifying the source code or by passing command-line arguments:

• -subreddit: Specify the subreddit you want to scrape (e.g., -subreddit worldnews).

Contribution

Feel free to contribute to the project by submitting bug reports or feature requests.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Happy scraping! 🚀