Reddit Provider
The reddit provider subscribes to search results from Reddit.As Reddit mostly aggregates news stories about lots of topics, the provider will deliver news results about the indicated query term.
| Provider name | |
|---|---|
| Type | Polling provider |
Table of Contents
Configuration
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| query | The query to execute on Reddit. |
Configuration Example
This is an example configuration for subscribing to all stories mentioning Microsoft:
{
"query": "Microsoft"
}
Using the Python SDK a subscription for this could be created with the following code snippet:
client = SquirroClient(None, None, cluster='https://next.squirro.net/')
client.authenticate(refresh_token='293d…a13b')
client.new_subscription(project_id, object_id='default', provider='reddit',
config={'query': 'Microsoft'})
Item Format
No special keywords are added to items created by this provider, but all stories are fetched from their original site. In this process story is retrieved and any ads, side columns, etc. are removed (see Boilerplate Removal).
Licensing
Using this provider doesn't incur additional cost, but rate limits may be applied by Reddit.