def urls_by_period(subreddit_name, start_date, end_date):
reddit = redditaccess.bot_login()
subreddit = reddit.subreddit(subreddit_name)
submissions = subreddit.submissions(start=start_date, end=end_date)
ret_list = list() # ret_list is the list I will return
# For each url I add (url, datetime)
# to ret_list. I first added this
# for testing purposes.
# but I think it can be used to prepend
# file names with creation dates
# so the downloaded files could be
# easier organized later.
for submission in submissions:
file_list = list()
date_created = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(submission.created_utc).strftime('%Y%m%d_%H%M%S_')
file_list.append(submission.url)
file_list.append(date_created)
ret_list.append(file_list)
return ret_list
def urls_by_period(subreddit_name, start_date, end_date):
""" # ((url, date_string), (url, date_string), (url, date_string) ...) """
reddit = redditaccess.bot_login()
subreddit = reddit.subreddit(subreddit_name)
submissions = subreddit.submissions(start=start_date, end=end_date)
ret_list = list()
for submission in submissions:
file_list = list()
date_created = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(
submission.created_utc).strftime('%Y%m%d_%H%M%S_')
file_list.append(submission.url)
file_list.append(date_created)
file_list.append(submission.title)
ret_list.append(file_list)
return ret_list
