The app provides insights abouts links shared in the Subreddits that you follow. It allows you to see the top contributors who shared different links, along with the top domains whose links were shared and also lists the posts with the said links.

Hosted Demo: https://reddittoplinks.herokuapp.com/

Pre-requisites (to run App locally)

• Python 3.6 and pip should be preinstalled
• Reddit developer Credentials

How to Run Locally

• Clone Repository
• Install the requirements using pip install -r requirements.txt, in the repository folder.
• Create a new app at https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps with the following details:
• Create a .env file inside the reddittoplinks folder, the .env file should contain the following

CLIENT_ID=<Your Reddit Client ID>
CLIENT_SECRET=<Your Reddit Client Secret>

• Run python manage.py makemigrations
• Run python manage.py migrate
• Finally, Run python manage.py runserver, in the repository Folder
• The Server should start at localhost:8000/.

How to Use?

• Go to Homepage and Press Login
• Approve the App to see data from your account
• You will be redirected to the dashboard which will show all the required information.

Database Schema

class Posts(models.Model):
    username = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=False)
    author = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=False)
    text = models.TextField(blank=False)
    title = models.TextField(blank=False)
    link = models.URLField(max_length=400, blank=False)
    subreddit = models.URLField(max_length=400, blank=True)

Note

• The embedded images in posts with external URLs are also considered as external links.
• Minor changes were made to the current project to be able to host it on Heroku.
• Top 100 Posts from each subreddit are considered for getting the links
• Top 5 Domains and Top 5 Authors are shown.
• Number of posts considered, number of top domains and top authors shown can easily be changed to a different value.