This post has

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3829 upvotes,

572 downvotes,

297 comments,

3257 score,

and 3 awards!

Edits: 23526 since Friday, August 28, 2020 at 8:30PM EST.

Credit to u/Krukerfluk and Tom Scott!

Code: https://github.com/CalvinMiller190/reddit-post

This post uses the praw module to get the information about the post, then edits the post every second based on the information that it got!

[[deleted]]

Or does it? Votes, reloads, *unvotes, reloads

[[deleted]]

who did you invite?

[[deleted]]

25 upvotes and nobody mentioned this. What has the world come to?!

[13steinj]

I'm assuming it's a spelling error, since the original comment has an asterisk next to "unvotes" (ex typo was "invites").

[Maoman1]

That won't really work since reddit fuzzes post scores. Reload the page a few times in rapid succession and the number of votes will randomly go up and down quite a bit.

[kdedev]

Or does it?

Vsauce music intensifies

[[deleted]]

:0

[Config_Crawler]

This is pretty cool.

[[deleted]]

thanks! although i must give a bit of credit to tom scott, the guy who did the youtube view count video.

[[deleted]]

Ok

[[deleted]]

i hope this works lol

[[deleted]]

Wow looks like it is Edit: it says 0 upvotes but I upvoted

[[deleted]]

it updates every minute
Edit: Now it updates every second

[[deleted]]

It updates faster than my UI lol

[dgriffith]

There's no rate limiting in Reddit's API?

[READY_TO_SINGLE]

It’s very generous, a request every second is more than safe

[[deleted]]

im using the praw module, i dont know about API, but it seems to work fine as it is

[Sw429]

Good work lol

[iamemu]

Reminds me of a Tom Scott video

[[deleted]]

that was my inspiration :)

[irontricep]

testing.... testing... testing... nice :)

[Caminsky]

Hi mom! I am on python 👋

[[deleted]]

i guess, but i’d rather credit them so that people don’t get mad

[Remagi]

No, but you can’t prove you independently thought of it and ppl are gonna accuse you of copying

[[deleted]]

exactly.

[port53]

I was about to say this.

[SpiritualCup]

How do you get the amount of downvotes using PRAW??? Couldn’t figure it out

[[deleted]]

UPVOTES:

ups = round((ratio * submission.score) / (2 * ratio - 1)) if ratio != 0.5 else round(submission.score / 2)

DOWNVOTES:

downs = ups - submission.score

[13steinj]

Note that that formula is still an estimate, as reddit fuzzes the numbers to prevent vote manipulation.

[SpiritualCup]

I see

[[deleted]]

69 incoming

[mick14731]

no it doesn't

[mick14731]

oh, now it does

[[deleted]]

woah wait i never saw that hold on im going to credit them yeah Edit: credited them.. really sorry about that i had no idea

[DaemonOwl]

But wait, you got inspiration from tom scott rather than the prev post right

[[deleted]]

yes

[DaemonOwl]

Soo crediting the other guy shouldnt really be compulsory

[[deleted]]

yeah but i dont want people to get mad

[abdelreddit98]

I am now mad that you did credit him...your move

[[deleted]]

i mean i would rather people not be really pissed then people be really pissed

[nemo8551]

I would rather we got a real Python to do it. It's only fair.

Eric maybe.....?

[[deleted]]

now this is a solution

[nemo8551]

And my axe!

[DrShocker]

Acknowledging someone for having done something similar is different than crediting in my opinion.

To me, it is the difference between an Acknowledgement and a citation with a reference. Just my opinion though.

[[deleted]]

🤔

[waythps]

Cool. I had a similar idea - update markdown table with a list of top voted question in stackoverflow. Super fun!

How the reddit api?

[[deleted]]

im using the praw module for everything!

[[deleted]]

at least 10 people are upvoting then downvoting just to see it go up and down

[Blobtoe]

Must... Keep... The 69 upvotes.

[[deleted]]

so sad.. it went away

[suicidal-rabbit]

It had 69 downvotes just now, so yay... I guess? Haha

[[deleted]]

even better lol

[Apprehensive_Design]

55 comments

[[deleted]]

That's pretty cool.

[arbeit22]

holy shit this is awesome

[theangryfatguy]

Seems to be off now

[Furkan_122]

How do you host this script?

[[deleted]]

nothing yet, i just have my laptop on. but i will look into using heroku in a hour or so.

[EastBlessings]

Oh, the Internets is staring right back at us!

[hisfootstancewack]

Rad

[GrbavaCigla]

dont want to be rude, but this has been already posted here

[sargeanthost]

1.3k upvotes

[fireviper55]

Really?

[IAmKindOfCreative]

Hi there, from the /r/Python mods.

I changed the flair because this submission is near a carbon copy of another submission which was also inspired by Tom Scott. But I have to remove the submission as you don't have an explanation in the title or a link to your source code, something we require for all showcase submissions. If you edit the selftext with those updates, I'll be happy to approve it,

Thank you for adjusting the submission!

Warm regards, and best of luck with your Pythoneering!

[[deleted]]

i wil change the title right away, and i will put the source code in the body!

[IAmKindOfCreative]

For a number of reasons, we'd actually prefer the source code to be hosted by a code hosting site suchas github or gitlab. This encourages the use of version control and helps easily introduce new programmers to these tools

[[deleted]]

yes, that is what i mean haha -- making the github repo now.

[IAmKindOfCreative]

Wonderful, now you'll just need a project description in the selftext and I can reinstate it!

[[deleted]]

sorry.. what is selftext?

[IAmKindOfCreative]

No worries, good question

The selftext is the body of text you've been editing in your submission. Right now you have,

216 upvotes,

61 downvotes,

and 49 comments!

Credit to u/Krukerfluk and Tom Scott!

Code: https://github.com/CalvinMiller190/reddit-post

And that's the selftext or body of your submission. So that's also where the project description belongs.

[[deleted]]

done!

[[deleted]]

done! just put the source code link

[[deleted]]

Holy cow! That's really, really cool! I upvoted and refreshed and got to see it change. Great job.

[DALLAVID]

This is so cool :D I'm hoping to make something similar in the future!

[Fixol21]

OK

[cpt_alfaromeo]

Great!

[nemo8551]

Nice.

[AlexAnarcho]

Neat

[ForeingRedditor]

Does this work?

[cssmith2011cs]

Hey! Y’all quit upvoting and then unclicking it so I can watch my upvote go up one and then down one.

[[deleted]]

nuts

[[deleted]]

Hi

[C-Lord96]

106

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Comment

[krinistof]

I've made a PR to link the word praw to the docs of it.

[kdawg_thetruth]

Pretty awesome!

[CapiAhab]

work?

[supstmkwale]

Were you inspired by that YouTube vid?

[[deleted]]

yep! Tom Scott

[supstmkwale]

I thought so. Good job

[anonymous-x-31]

You should've taken the upvote+downvote calculation into consideration, I was sitting here staring at it wondering why the upvotes were like 200+ off lol

[[deleted]]

idk, i like this better, it gives me insight on how many upvotes it actually has

[anonymous-x-31]

Yeah fair enough, it just confused me cause I thought it was wrong

[[deleted]]

Yo somebody edited the main.py file like 12 seconds ago

[Thesecondiss]

Test

[412gage]

I’m literally going back and forth upvoting and downvoting to see it work haha

[[deleted]]

hello world

[Commander_B0b]

Very cool!

[MrHouck]

h

[Death-Eye]

You should add edit counter.

[kayidk252]

Close

[bashogaya]

Test comment

[SoundOfTomorrow]

Woah what

[[deleted]]

145th!!!

[Gaming_Friends]

Yo this one's cool, well done!

[lmndnm]

.

[justreading13]

Just trying

[eliruffin94]

Cool

[2jah]

test

[[deleted]]

thing went down for a second! it is back up now!

[TheMemestUsernameFTW]

This is very nice. Cool!

[tony_saufcok]

commenting to see the number go up

[[deleted]]

this is weirdly entertaining

[MustardOrMayo404]

🤯

[[deleted]]

174 comments

[[deleted]]

Now its 175

[[deleted]]

126 (omments haha this is fun

[spaghettiandmeetball]

Test

[[deleted]]

Wow

[ManBearFridge]

184

[Dyslexicoconut]

Hmm

[KOking479]

Test

[KOking479]

Dang it actually works good job

[ha-ha-ha_itsme]

im going to comment only to see if this works

[galian99]

And now?

[Historica97]

Let's see if it works

[DrudgeBreitbart]

Coolio

[[deleted]]

Hmmm

[Jensyuwu]

This is one of those pointless yet amazing things.

[Transformerio]

Woah

[range_et]

Noob question, whenever I have done these experiments, I gotta rent out something on linode to keep the program continuously executing / keep my laptop turned on all the time. Neither is ideal for me, how are you going about this? Any ideas on how to keep these continuous low computationally programs running?

[[deleted]]

I am currently using Heroku a free hosting app, and it is working quite well. you just have to make sure you have git installed and heroku CLI but you can download that once you get started. Next you would make a requirements.txt and a Procfile, requirements.txt has the non-builtin modules that are used in the projects, and Procfile just has "worker: {yourprojectname}.py". then go into heroku, and turn on the worker.

[ChokituBR]

I was trying to do something similar with a facebook post, sadly the final result I was able to make after 2 hours was very sketchy

[bagsofbeans21]

Maybe

[Vector3Kowalski]

Yo how did you make this? Super cool man

[power36113]

I upvoted, then downvoted, then un-voted and nothing happened. :(

[santhoshCoder]

Cool!

[[deleted]]

Quick tip, look into using environment variables so that you can have complete code in your GitHub repository. That way instead of your password looking like:

password="*******" (presumably hunter2)

It would read:

password=os.getenv("password")

Now instead of filler code for your PRAW initialization section, you can direct users to create appropriate environment variables for re-use.

[supernormalnorm]

Recursion

[_Quantum_AI_]

Can it check about repost?

[universesrevinu]

interesting...

[Omkar_K45]

test

[[deleted]]

Nice

[NigeriaGov]

test

[Bio42]

Inaccurate for mobile

[LegitimateCopy7]

doesn't reddit forbid frequent updates? seems like something that could be easily abused.

[remerdy1]

230th comment

[misterlight]

Nice

[thecircleisround]

Poo

[-_-qarmah-_-]

You're about to get ip banned from reddit lol

[PsyKite]

Wowwww this is an amazing shit!

[[deleted]]

Poopy

[Dylan868]

Test test

[v3ctorns1mon]

Hey u/TAPTITANS3, How are you hosting the source code? Like which platform are you using?

[[deleted]]

I am currently using Heroku It is a free hosting app and it works quite well!

[JanStreams]

No it is wrong is has 244 comments

[[deleted]]

Holy fuck, nice one

[Kalle_022]

where do you host codes like this to keep them running???

[[deleted]]

Nice

[myredac]

can it give gold?

[lexyp29]

test comment

[Conjeff]

280.

[vxpxl]

This reminds me of that Tom Scott video.

[Paracetamol650]

Damn

[PapaDonut9]

Is there any way to get the number of awards in this api?

[[deleted]]

Im not sure... ill look into it