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Someday, it will be a reddit API library.
For now, it handles only a few resources. Building in parallel with reddit-mobile.
Works both client-side and server-side.
// Require snoode.
import { v1 } from 'snoode';
const api = new v1();
// Example call to get links for /r/homebrewing.
api.links.get({
subredditName: 'homebrewing',
}).then(function(data) {
console.log(data.body);
});
// Example call to get all comments for this particular listing.
api.comments.get({
linkId: 't3_ib4bk'
}).then(function(data) {
console.log(data.body);
});
// Example with auth.
// Pass in an oauth token and new origin to `withConfig`, which returns
// a new instance that inherits the config from the existing api instance
// merged with the new config.
const myOauthToken = 'abcdef1234567890';
const authedAPI = api.withConfig({
token: myOauthToken,
origin: 'https://oauth.reddit.com'
});
authedAPI.subscriptions.get().then(function(data) {
console.log(data.body)
});
If you chmod +x ./repl
, you can start up a repl for testing (and for general
use!) An api instance is created in the global scope (api
), from which you
can call any of the API methods. Use help
in the repl to learn more.
If you install Mancy you can have a nicer version of using the repl. To set it up, open mancy, and go to Preferences
. Under Add node modules path
add your local install of Snoode. Then under Startup script
add mancyStart.js
. You can edit mancyStart.js
to include your token and you can then either use api
or authed
as you'd expect. Mancy supports lots of inspecting and autocomplete tools out of the box.
Example mancyStart.js
:
var api = require('mancyLoader.js')
var authed = api.withConfig({
token: "<YOUR_TOKEN_HERE>",
origin: "https://oauth.reddit.com"})
FAQs
node and browser reddit api library
The npm package snoode receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, snoode popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that snoode demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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