2. Get data from Reddit

In this exercise we are going to access Reddit to obtain data like the one in the following image.

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import urllib.request

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import json

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# The Reddit URL we'll access

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url = "https://cors.bridged.cc/http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/.json"

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resp = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()

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# The response is in JSON format, it needs to be transformed

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# into a Python dictionary with json.loads

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text = json.loads(resp)

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# You can see the received data if you uncomment the line below

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# print(text)

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# We search and print the data we want

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for item in text["data"]["children"]:

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    doc = item["data"]

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    print(doc["title"])

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    print("#comments: %d" % doc["num_comments"])

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    print(doc["url"])

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    print()

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