Just save this as karma.py and run it with Python 3.6 or higher.
import requests
import math
INSTANCE_URL = "https://feddit.de"
TARGET_USER = "ENTER_YOUR_USERNAME_HERE"
LIMIT_PER_PAGE = 50
res = requests.get(f"{INSTANCE_URL}/api/v3/user?username={TARGET_USER}&limit={LIMIT_PER_PAGE}").json()
totalPostScore = 0
totalCommentScore = 0
page = 1
while len(res["posts"])+len(res["comments"]) > 0:
totalPostScore += sum([ x["counts"]["score"] for x in res["posts"] ])
totalCommentScore += sum([ x["counts"]["score"] for x in res["comments"] ])
page += 1
res = requests.get(f"{INSTANCE_URL}/api/v3/user?username={TARGET_USER}&limit={LIMIT_PER_PAGE}&page={page}").json()
print("Post karma: ", totalPostScore)
print("Comment karma: ", totalCommentScore)
print("Total karma: ", totalPostScore+totalCommentScore)
I’m getting back into Python for unrelated reasons, and last I was using it, JSON wasn’t on my radar yet.
I’m curious about the
.json()method here, which seems to be exposingpostset al. for further manipulation without parsing. Is this really as simple as it appears?Yes, it totally is that easy. At first I used an API wrapper library, but then I checked out the source and there is really no need for it since requests already handles basically everything.
.json()takes the response body of the request and runs it throughjson.decode()and thus spits out a nice Python dict/list structure.It is absurdly simple and powerful.