Reddit-stonks-bot

Scrape most mentioned stock tickers from subreddits like Wallstreetbets and Wallstreetbetsnew. Use it to go to the moon!

Usage

First get your credentials from Reddit. Either place them in a creds.yaml-file in the same folder as the stonks_bot.py or in environment variables. In either case use the following keys: REDDIT_CLIENT_ID, REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET, REDDIT_REDIRECT_URL, REDDIT_USER_AGENT.

The output is printed and exported to output/mentions.csv in append-mode.

Install requirements

git clone https://github.com/kromme/reddit-stonks-bot.git
cd reddit-stonks-bot
pip install -r requirements.txt

Example YAML:

REDDIT_CLIENT_ID: xxXXXxxXXxXXxX
REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET: xxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
REDDIT_REDIRECT_URL: http://localhost:8080
REDDIT_USER_AGENT: testscript by u/xxxxxxx-xxxxxx

From Command Line

python stonks_bot.py

From Python

from stonks_bot import StonksBot
sb = StonksBot(number_of_posts=2000)
sb.find_tickers_on_reddit()