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@era86/random-reddit
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The set of functions that get random posts or images from specified subreddit.
npm install random-reddit
getPost()
or getImage()
from the package.const { getPost, getImage } = require('random-reddit')
function async getPost() {
const post = await getPost('memes')
console.log(post) // returns the reddit post object
// ...
}
function async getImage() {
const image = await getImage('memes')
console.log(image) // e.g. https://i.redd.it/sri113wns9351.png
}
You can enable inner logs by setting the environment variable RANDOM_REDDIT_LOG_LEVEL
to a number from -1 (no logs at all) to 5 (every log possible).
RANDOM_REDDIT_LOG_LEVEL=4 node my_app.js
The logs are provided by the consola
package. So the log level can also be changed with CONSOLA_LEVEL
env variable
CONSOLA_LEVEL=4 node my_app.js
Types are provided by the reddit-interfaces
package. It's the peer dependency, so it you have to install it manually, if you use random-reddit
with Typescript.
getPost()
getPost(subreddit: string | string[]): Promise
Returns the whole Reddit post.
Arguments:
subreddit
(string | string[]
) - a subreddit to fetch the post from. You can also specify an array of subreddit names. Make sure there's no r/
part in the value(s)getImage()
getImage(subreddit: string | string[], retryLimit?: number): Promise
Returns the random post's image URL. If it won't find one - the request will be sent again until the retryLimit
is reached.
Arguments:
subreddit
(string | string[]
) - a subreddit to fetch the image from. You can also specify an array of subreddit namesretryLimit
(number
) - optional. Request retry limit. Default is 10.getPostById()
getPostById(id: string, subreddit: string): Promise
Returns specific post with given id (ID36) and specified subreddit.
Arguments:
id
(string
) - post's idsubreddit
(string
) - a subreddit to fetch the post fromFAQs
Random Reddit posts and images
The npm package @era86/random-reddit receives a total of 3 weekly downloads. As such, @era86/random-reddit popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @era86/random-reddit demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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