/reddit-api-client-exercise

Primary LanguageJavaScript

description

job interview task for Hearst Magazines

task

You will be judged on design approach, code quality and speed of execution.

Please write a JS file (can be a script, module, function, etc) that does the following:

Hit this URL https://www.reddit.com/r/aww.json where the result is json and retrieve the json.data.children array. Iterate through that array and retrieve the author property for each of the children.

Using the author property, Hit this URL https://www.reddit.com/user/[AUTHOR]/about.json where [AUTHOR] is the author property and retrieve the link_karma and comment_karma fields. Generate a JSON file that resembles this structure:

[
  {
    author: “XX”,
    link_karma: 0,
    comment_karma:0,
  },
  {
    author: “XX”,
    link_karma: 0,
    comment_karma:0,
  },
  ...
]

You can use (or not use) any npm modules you see fit.

Adding a comment at the top of the json file with the speed of execution in seconds will be viewed favorably.