A Reddit Scrapper that works with PRAW and the Reddit API to collect the top links.
This project works best when used within its own virtual environment, so as to make sure the dependencies don't interact with previously installed dependencies and projects. In addition virtualenvwrapper will need to be installed because it makes switching between environments easier
Virtualenv can be installed by running from the command line.
$ pip install virtualenv
Once downloaded install virtualenvwrapper by running from the commnand line.
$ pip install virtualenvwrapper
Once both are downloaded you will need to create your virtual environment. It can be named whatever you want, just make sure you remember what it is called. For the purposes of this project I have named it 'reddit'. Cd to the directory where this project will be located and run.
$ mkvirtualenv reddit
Now you can intall the proper dependencies in this virtual environment so it doesn't interact with other projects you may be running. To enter into the virtual environment simply type
$ workon reddit
and (reddit) should appear before your location on the command line. This means that you are successfully within your virtual environment and any dependencies you install will remain exclusive to this environmnent and that you will need to make sure you are within your environment to run the code successfully.
All of the dependencies for this project can be installed via pip. Pip is very easy to install. If you don't have pip installed you can either download it directly from pip or if you have easy_install it can be installed by runnning 'easy_install pip'. This project requires PRAW and Web.py as dependencies and these can easily be installed via pip.
In order to install praw just run from the command line.
$ pip install praw
In order to install web.py just run from the command line.
$ sudo easy_install web.py
or you can download it via git
git clone git://github.com/webpy/webpy.git
ln -s `pwd`/webpy/web .
Once installed cd to the directory in which your repository is located and run
run server.py
After that switch to any browser you want and go to
http://0.0.0.0:8080/
###What does it look like?
Once running and everything is installed correctly the site should look like this.
