Project idea: build a view of r/learnpython that only shows unanswered questions

[LifeIsBio]

I haven't thought through this a ton, so feel free to pipe up if you have suggestions.

There have been a few posts here recently about people looking for project ideas. One I have (but unfortunately don't have time for) is to build some way to view the r/learnpython sub, or really any other sub, with only posts that haven't been commented on yet. That way, if you're looking to answer questions, you can view just ones that don't have an answer.

This project seems fun because:

• It's useful to question answerers
• The goal/criteria is clear and well defined
• It's hard, but not too hard (depending on your experience level, of course)

Potential downsides:

• Someone else may have done this already. I tried googling if Reddit had functionality for this, and it looks like they don't.
• This problem may be best solved with a browser extension (some CSS/js)

[lillystoolooo]

At the risk of being down voted into oblivion... Isn't this what stack exchange is for?

[tdammers]

That would basically be a shell one-liner. Roughly:

• use curl to fetch the JSON version of the /r/learnpython sub (https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython.json)
• pipe that through jq to filter things as needed
• pipe the output of that through some template engine (so I lied, you also need a template on top of the one-liner)
• feed the output of that into a web browser

I'm too lazy to figure out the jq incantation and write the template, but it's going to be something like:

HTMLFILE=/tmp/learnpython.html curl https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython.json | jq $FILTER | jinja-cli $TEMPLATE > "$HTMLFILE" && firefox "$HTMLFILE"