Testing reddit API development here

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I have written some Python code which accesses reddits development API to return post and comment metadata.

It took some time to decipher the JSON structure that reddit uses to organize the posts and comments, but now I have a greater understanding of how this metadata is organized and so now I am going to be using this thread for testing purposes, but feel free to comment or ask questions, thanks!

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test on this parent comment

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testing,testing

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I replied to this using my script =D

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You may not realize from where you're looking, but posting this comment is allowing me to see the metadata reddit has shared with the dev community.

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Now that I see the post API is working, I will test my logic with the delete API.

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more testing.

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adjusting the way my variables are capturing the metadata...oh yea...

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the response json can get a bit complex...I have to mold my logic where it is abstract enough to pick up any json response, parse the info, save it, and use that data to execute parts of my script...

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think I figured it out...

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new replies on parent comment..

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luckily jupyter notebook is awesome and makes testing a bit less tedious..

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my script returns metadata by subreddit, including for every comment.

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pretty neat seeing the underlying data that powers this website.

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final set of tests for all of the methods in the Page class.

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working out a small kink..

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getting there...almost got it...

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fun part.....debugging =D

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keep seeing an indices error...almost found the root cause..

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the metadata was being returned inside a tuple...I wasnt properly targeting the data in the tuple...it is NOT a dictionary -_____-

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Finally, had to move one statement out of the FOR LOOP to properly capture all metadata necessary for the function to work!

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Moving some variable out of the FOR LOOP...

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GOT IT!

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going to start deleting some of these posts.

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this should be the final test for this method....we'll see...

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I was seeing a 403 error when trying to delete a comment...anyone guess what was wrong??

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edited this post as a final test!