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Reddit bot that posts text messages to subreddit

This is the first program I've ever made in Python, and I never really studied the language (just looked at bits of code online) so I'm sure the performance is less than optimal. The Objective: At my ...
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Chrome extension that marks Reddit entries with clickbait sources

So, I've created my first Chrome extension! What this does is it highlights every post on Reddit that comes from a source of dubious quality. It provides a few sources by default and allows the user ...
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Newest Reddit submissions grabber

My program does exactly what I want it to do and it works well. However, I feel like it's very clunky. I'd like my code to be more efficient. By that I mean, I'd like it to accomplish what it already ...
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Reddit account creator

I'm trying to make a program that will create an account on Reddit using an HttpWebRequest. I ONLY want it to do that. (I don't care about it storing a cookie or ...
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Reddit bot to check reposts

I am a moderator of /r/sweepstakes on Reddit, which lets users post their referral links to contests/sweepstakes. One main rule is that a user is not allowed to post their link to a contest, if ...
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OAuth2 Client for Reddit, written using Tornado

I have a written some code which helps me to get OAuth Access Code from Reddit. Reddit uses standard OAuth2, so like any other OAuther server, here's are the steps to perform: The client/app sends ...
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Reddit-scraping API bot

I would like to improve my Reddit-scraping code to make it faster, but I don't know how. I am using deque instead of list to ...
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Web-scraping Reddit Bot

I have been working on a web-scraping Reddit bot in Python 2.7 with the premise of going to /r/eve (a game sub-reddit) finding posts that contain a link to a website hosting killmail information (...
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Newsfeed app for allowing custom Reddit feeds

I'm currently working on a newsfeed app (see it live here or its files on GitHub) that lets a user create a custom Reddit feed. The user adds the subreddits they'd like to view, and then can view them ...
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Saving comments and submissions from Reddit using Elasticsearch

I wrote a script to save comments and submissions from Reddit using Elasticsearch. Is there any way to improve the speed of inserting new items into Elasticsearch? ...
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Using Reddit API in R

I'm scraping some comments from Reddit using Reddit JSON API and R. Since the data does not have a flat structure, extracting it is a little tricky, but I've found a way. To give you a flavour of ...
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Reddit RepostFinder Bot

I've been making a bot for Reddit that finds reposts (based on image MD5 comparing) and posts a small comment on the thread (that part will be later, right now it downloads images and compares MD5). ...
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Reddit Investigator-like JS app

I am building a one-page JS app similar to redditinvestigator.com, and my goal is for it to be 100% done in JavaScript. Coming from a PHP/Java background, I'm more used to working in class oriented ...