wallstreetbets-scanner

wallstreetbets-scanner

The wallstreetbets-scanner collects statistical data from Reddit (r/wallstreetbets). It tells us how many times do symbols (e.g. TSLA) occurs in x times of API calls, and how many times do different types of flairs were tagged to the posts.

Installation

Install dependencies with npm

npm i wallstreetbets-scanner --save

Or with yarn

yarn add wallstreetbets-scanner --save

Example

const wsbScanner=require('wallstreetbets-scanner')

wsbScanner({
    pages:10,
    retryOnError:true,
    retryTimes:3,
    retryAfter:3,
    hideIfNotMentioned:true,
    sortMethod:"new",
    symbols:["XPEV"]
})
    .then(data=>{
        fs.writeFileSync('output.json',JSON.stringify(data,null,2))
    })

Sample output

{
"MVIS": {
    "occurrence_count": 1336,
        "flair": {
            "News": 85,
            "Discussion": 657,
            "Meme": 58,
            "Mods": 4,
            "Gain": 132,
            "DD": 126,
            "YOLO": 201,
            "Loss": 15,
            "Chart": 18,
            "Daily Discussion": 3
        }
    }
}

Options

Option name	Type	Description	Default value
pages	number	Number of page the scanner is going to fetch.	100
retryOnError	boolean	If "retryOnError" is set to "true", the scanner will call the API again if an error occurs. If will not retryOnError is set to "false".	true
retryTimes	number	Maximum attempt to re-run the API call on error occurs.	3
retryAfter	number	Number of seconds to wait for re-run the API call after error occurs.	3
hideIfNotMentioned	boolean	Hide the result of a stock if occurrence_count=0.	true
sortMethod	string	Reddit sorting method you want to use.	hot
symbols	array	An array of symbol string you want to filter.	[]