Fetch new posts from Reddit

• Usage for PRAW-Reddit api to get new posts from a subreddit
• New posts are saved in a dictionary along with the timestamp which gets updated whenever new entry is added
  • Send a push notification to android through pushbullet for new posts
• Also provided Dockerfile in case you want to run it as a docker container

Usage

• Clone the repo
• Create API token for PRAW from Reddit
• Create API token for Pushbullet notifier from Pushbullet
• Fill in the correct credentials for both pushbullet and praw
• Either you can run the code as python3 main.py or through Dockerfile as follows
  • Build image from Dockerfile docker build --tag <name>:<tag> .
  • Run the image in detatched mode docker run -d -v $(pwd)/logs:/praw/logs --name <container_name> <name>:<tag>
    • Or run it in interactive mode by using -it instead of -d
  • It should create a directory called logs with the log file in it

Requirements

• Python 3+ (tested on version 3.7.7)
• Install PRAW to interact with Reddit
• Install Notifiers to send notifications to android
• Create 2 files without extension in parent directory named pushbullet_credentials and praw_credentials and save information in those. Format will be key=value

Optional

• Install Docker (ext-id: ms-azuretools.vscode-docker) extension in VSCode for easy docker operations