NAME

Reddit::Client - A Perl wrapper for the Reddit API.

Up to date, nicely-formatted documentation can be found at http://redditclient.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.

SYNOPSIS

    use Reddit::Client;

    my $client_id  	= "DFhtrhBgfhhRTd";
    my $secret     	= "KrDNsbeffdbILOdgbgSvSBsbfFs";
    my $username   	= "reddit_username";
    my $password   	= "reddit_password";


    # Create a Reddit::Client object and authorize in one step
    my $reddit = new Reddit::Client(
	user_agent 	=> 'MyScriptName 1.0 by /u/earth-tone',
	client_id	=> $client_id,
	secret		=> $secret,
	username	=> $username,
	password	=> $password,
    );
	
    # Or create object then authorize.
    # Useful if you need to switch between accounts, for example if you were to check the inboxes of several accounts.
    my $reddit = Reddit::Client->new(
        user_agent   	=> 'MyApp/1.0 by /u/earth-tone',
    );

    $reddit->get_token(
	client_id	=> $client_id,
	secret		=> $secret,
	username	=> $username,
	password	=> $password,
    );

    # Check your inbox
    my $me = $reddit->me();
    print "You've got mail!" if $me->{has_mail};

    # Submit a link
    $reddit->submit_link(
        subreddit 	=> 'test',
        title     	=> 'Perl is still alive!',
        url       	=> 'http://www.perl.org'
    );

    # Submit a text post
    $reddit->submit_text(
	subreddit 	=> 'test',
	title		=> 'my test',
	text		=> 'a test'
    );

    # Get posts from a subreddit or multi
    my $posts = $reddit->fetch_links(subreddit=>'test', limit=>5);
    foreach my $post (@$posts) {
	print $post->{title} . "\n";
	if (!$post->{is_self}) { # Is it a self post or a link?
		print $post->{url};
	} else {
		print $post->{selftext};
	}
    }

    # Get comments from a subreddit or multi
    my $cmts = $reddit->get_subreddit_comments('test');
    foreach my $cmt (@$cmts) {
	print "$cmt->{author} says: $cmt->{body}\n";
    }

DESCRIPTION

Reddit::Client provides methods and object wrappers for objects exposed . This module handles HTTP communication, oauth session management, and communication with Reddit's external API. For more information about the Reddit API, see https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API.

Beginning August 3rd, 2015, the Reddit API requires Oauth authentication. This amounts to two extra arguments at the beginning of your script; in exchange you you twice as many requests per minute as before (60 vs 30) and some added convenience on the back end.

To get Oauth keys, visit your apps page: https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps. Choose a "script" type app. None of the other fields are needed for a script type app; you can put in 127.0.0.1 for the URLs or whatever you like.

Every account that uses this script must have permission to use it. So for example if you were to check the inboxes of your various accounts, each one would need permission. To add accounts click "add developer" on the right, after you've created the app.

Constants

DEFAULT_LIMIT           => 25

VIEW_HOT                => ''
VIEW_NEW                => 'new'
VIEW_CONTROVERSIAL      => 'controversial'
VIEW_TOP                => 'top'
VIEW_RISING             => 'rising'
VIEW_DEFAULT            => VIEW_HOT

VOTE_UP                 => 1
VOTE_DOWN               => -1
VOTE_NONE               => 0

SUBMIT_LINK             => 'link'
SUBMIT_SELF             => 'self'
SUBMIT_MESSAGE          => 'message'

MESSAGES_INBOX          => 'inbox'
MESSAGES_UNREAD         => 'unread'
MESSAGES_SENT           => 'sent'
MESSAGES_MESSAGES       => 'messages'
MESSAGES_COMMENTREPLIES => 'comments'
MESSAGES_POSTREPLIES    => 'selfreply'
MESSAGES_MENTIONS       => 'mentions'

SUBREDDITS_HOME         => ''
SUBREDDITS_MINE         => 'subscriber'
SUBREDDITS_POPULAR      => 'popular'
SUBREDDITS_NEW          => 'new'
SUBREDDITS_CONTRIB      => 'contributor'
SUBREDDITS_MOD          => 'moderator'

USER_OVERVIEW           => 'overview'
USER_COMMENTS           => 'comments'
USER_SUBMITTED          => 'submitted'
USER_GILDED             => 'gilded'
USER_UPVOTED            => 'upvoted'
USER_DOWNVOTED          => 'downvoted'
USER_HIDDEN             => 'hidden'
USER_SAVED              => 'saved'

Methods

These are the methods of the Reddit::Client class.

Two notes about methods that return lists of things:

1. All methods that return lists of things return them as a Perl list-- that is, a reference to an anonymous array. In practice this means that you get at the values with @$array instead of @array.

2. All methods that return lists of things accept three optional parameters: limit, before, and after. You may recognize them from your address bar when viewing pages after the front page. limit defaults to 25 with a maximum of 100. (If limit is present but false, this is interpreted as "no limit" and the maximum is returned.) before and after limit results to those posted before before and after after.

Methods

comment

    comment ( $fullname, $text )

Make a comment under $fullname, which must be either a post or a comment. Return the fullname of the new comment.

This function is an alias for submit_comment, and is equivalent to

submit_comment ( parent_id => $fullname, text => $text )

delete

delete ( $fullname )

Delete a post or comment.

edit_wiki

    edit_wiki ( subreddit => $subreddit, page => $page, content => $content,
	            [ previous => $previous_version_number,] [ reason => $edit_reason, ] )

page is the page being edited.

content is the new page content. Can be empty but must be defined. Maximum 524,288 characters.

reason is the edit reason. Max 256 characters, will be truncated if longer. Optional.

previous is the ID of the intended previous version of the page; if provided, that is the version the page will be rolled back to in a rollback. However, there's no way to find out what this should be from the Reddit website, or currently from Reddit::Client either. Use it only if you know what you're doing. Optional.

find_subreddits

find_subreddits ( q => $query, [ sort => 'relevance' ,] 
                  [ limit => DEFAULT_LIMIT ,] [ before => undef ,] [ after => undef ,] )

Returns a list of Subreddit objects matching the search string $query. Optionally sort them by sort, which can be "relevance" or "activity".

get_comment

get_comment ( $fullname )

Returns a Comment object for $fullname.

get_flair_options

    get_flair_options( subreddit => $subreddit, post_id => $post_id_or_fullname, username => $username )

Get the flair options for either the post or the user provided.

Returns a hash containing two keys:

1. choices is an array of hash references containing the flair options. Most important is flair_template_id, which is used to set the flair of a post or user with set_post_flair or set_user_flair. flair_text contains the text of the flair.

2. current is a hash of the post or user's existing flair.

get_inbox

    get_inbox ( [ view => MESSAGES_INBOX ,] [ limit => DEFAULT_LIMIT ,]
                [ before => undef ,] [ after => undef ,] )

Returns a list of Message objects, where view is one of the MESSAGE constants. All arguments are optional. If all are omitted your default inbox will be returned-- what you would see if you went to reddit.com and clicked the mailbox icon.

Checking your inbox via the API doesn't mark it as read. To do that you'll need to call mark_inbox_read: http://redditclient.readthedocs.org/en/latest/main-methods/#mark_inbox_read

get_link

get_link ( $fullname )

Returns a Link object for $fullname.

get_links

get_links ( [ subreddit => undef ,] [ view => VIEW_DEFAULT ,] [ limit => DEFAULT_LIMIT ,]
            [ before => undef ,] [ after => undef ,] )

Returns a list of Link objects. All arguments are optional.

subreddit can be a subreddit or multi (ex: "pics+science"). If omitted, results from the user's front page will be returned-- i.e. what you would see if you visited reddit.com as that user.

view is a feed type constant-- i.e. VIEW_HOT, VIEW_NEW, etc.

fetch_links is an alias for get_links.

get_permalink

    get_permalink ( $comment_id, $post_id )

Returns a permalink for $comment_id. If you already have a Comment object, use its get_permalink function instead, ala $comment-get_permalink()>.

This version causes an extra request because it has to ask Reddit for the parent post's URL first, while a Comment object already has that information. It's provided for backwards compatibility, and for the rare case when you may have a comment's ID but not a comment object (perhaps you have a list of IDs stored in a database). It may be deprecated in the future.

$comment_id and $post_id can be either fullnames or short IDs.

get_subreddit_comments

get_subreddit_comments ( [ subreddit => '' ,] [ view => VIEW_DEFAULT ,] [ limit => DEFAULT_LIMIT ,]
                         [ before => undef ,] [ after => undef ,]  )

Returns a list of Comment objects from a subreddit or multi.

All arguments are optional. If subreddit is omitted the account's "front page" subreddits are returned (i.e. what you see when you visit reddit.com and are logged in).

view is a feed type constant-- i.e. VIEW_HOT, VIEW_NEW, etc.

get_token

get_token ( client_id => $client_id, secret => $secret, username => $username, password => $password )

Get an Oauth token from Reddit. This is analogous to the old login function, and can be considered identical, with the exception that, if your script runs continuously for more than an hour, a new token will be obtained hourly.

get_user

    get_user ( [ user => $username ,] [ view => USER_OVERVIEW ,]
               [ limit => DEFAULT_LIMIT ,][ before => undef ,] [ after => undef ,]  )

Get information about a user, where view is one of the USER constants: overview, comments, submitted, gilded, upvoted, downvoted, hidden, or saved. Defaults to overview, which shows the user's most recent comments and posts.

Note that if you try to get the upvoted, downvoted, hidden, or saved activity for a user other than yourself, Reddit will return a 403 error, so be sure to wrap requests in a try/catch (http://redditclient.readthedocs.org/en/latest/examples/#catch-exceptions) if there's any chance that might happen. (Of course, all requests should be wrapped in a try/catch anyway, the internet being an unpredictable place.)

The result can be a list of Links, Comments, or a mix of both, depending on what view you requested. You can determine which is which by looking at the type property, which is "t1" for comments and "t3" for posts.

has_token

has_token()

Return true if a valid Oauth token exists.

hide

hide ( $fullname )

Hide a post.

info

info ( $fullname )

Returns a hash of information about $fullname. $fullname can be any of the 8 types of thing.

list_subreddits

list_subreddits ( [ view => SUBREDDITS_HOME ,] [ limit => DEFAULT_LIMIT ,]
                  [ before => undef ,] [ after => undef ,]  )

Returns a list of subreddits, where view is one of the SUBREDDIT constants.

An alias function is provided for each view type, which is the same as calling list_subreddits with the view already provided:

contrib_subreddits ( [ limit = DEFAULT_LIMIT ,] [ before => undef ,] [ after => undef ,] )>

home_subreddits ( [ limit = DEFAULT_LIMIT ,] [ before => undef ,] [ after => undef ,] )>

mod_subreddits ( [ limit = DEFAULT_LIMIT ,] [ before => undef ,] [ after => undef ,] )>

my_subreddits ( [ limit = DEFAULT_LIMIT ,] [ before => undef ,] [ after => undef ,] )>

new_subreddits ( [ limit = DEFAULT_LIMIT ,] [ before => undef ,] [ after => undef ,] )>

popular_subreddits ( [ limit = DEFAULT_LIMIT ,] [ before => undef ,] [ after => undef ,] )>

mark_inbox_read

mark_inbox_read()

Mark everything in your inbox as read. May take some time to complete.

me

me()

Return an Account object that contains information about the logged in account. Aside from static account information it contains the has_mail property, which will be true if there is anything in your inbox.

new

new ( user_agent => $user_agent, [ client_id => $client_id, secret => $secret, 
      username => $username, password => $password ] )

Instantiate a Reddit::Client object. Optionally get an Oauth token (analogous to logging in) at the same time. If any of the four optional arguments are used, all are required.

$user_agent is always required, and should be something descriptive that uniquely identifies your app. The API Rules (https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API#rules) say it should be "something unique and descriptive, including the target platform, a unique application identifier, a version string, and your username as contact information".

It also includes this warning: "**NEVER lie about your user-agent.** This includes spoofing popular browsers and spoofing other bots. We will ban liars with extreme prejudice."

save

save ( $fullname )

Save a post or comment.

send_message

send_message ( to => $username, subject => $subject, text => $message )

Send a private message to $username. $subject is limited to 100 characters.

set_post_flair

    set_post_flair ( subreddit => $subreddit, post_id => $post_id_or_fullname, flair_template_id => $flair_id )

Set the flair on a post. The 'flair_template_id' is acquired via get_flair_options.

set_user_flair

    set_user_flair ( subreddit => $subreddit, username => $username, flair_template_id => $flair_id )

Set the flair for a user. The 'flair_template_id' is acquired via get_flair_options.

submit_comment

submit_comment ( parent_id => $fullname, text => $text)

Submit a comment under $fullname, which must be a post or comment. Returns fullname of the new comment.

submit_link

submit_link ( subreddit => $subreddit, title => $title, url => $url, [ inbox_replies => 1, [repost => 0] )

Submit a link. Returns the fullname of the new post. If inbox_replies is defined and is false, disable inbox replies for that post. If repost is true, the link is allowed to be a repost. (Otherwise, if it is a repost, the request will fail with the error "That link has already been submitted".)

submit_text

submit_text ( subreddit => $subreddit, title => $title, text => $text, [ inbox_replies => 1 ] )

Submit a text post. Returns the fullname of the new post. If inbox_replies is defined and is false, disable inbox replies for that post.

unhide

unhide ( $fullname )

Unhide a post.

unsave

unsave ( $fullname )

Unsave a post or comment.

version

version()

Return the Reddit::Client version.

vote

vote ( $fullname, $direction )

Vote on a post or comment. Direction must be 1, 0, or -1 (0 to clear votes).

AUTHOR

mailto:earth-tone@ubwg.net

LICENSE

BSD license

To install Reddit::Client, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.

cpanm

cpanm Reddit::Client

CPAN shell

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Reddit::Client

For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.

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