Mexico City Activities Reddit Scraper

This script scrapes Reddit for activities and things to do in Mexico City using the PRAW (Python Reddit API Wrapper) library.

Setup

1. Install the required dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Create a Reddit application:

   • Go to https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps
   • Click "create another app..."
   • Choose "script"
   • Fill in the required information
   • Note down your client ID and client secret

3. Create a .env file in the project root with the following variables:

REDDIT_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id
REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret
REDDIT_USER_AGENT=your_user_agent

Usage

Run the script:

python mexico_city_activities.py

The script will:

• Search through multiple Mexico City-related subreddits
• Look for posts about activities and things to do
• Save the results to mexico_city_activities.json

Output

The script generates a JSON file containing:

• Post titles
• URLs
• Scores (upvotes)
• Creation dates
• Subreddit sources
• Post content (first 500 characters)
• Number of comments

The results are sorted by score and duplicates are removed.

To see it work locally, run

python app.py