getReddit

Concurrency based Reddit Scraper in Go Note: This repo is meant to be used in conjunction reddit-frame

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What's the point?

• I wanted to learn Golang and why it's praised a lot in distributed & parallel computing community.
• I hated the fact that reddit sometimes consumes more data than youtube (hats off to youtube engineers!).
• Showcase my skills as an aspiring software engineer.

Running the project

Make sure you have downloaded and install GoLang from official website

Steps

• Clone the project
• CD into the project
• Run go run main.go *subreddit_names_with_space*. Eg: go run main.go pics askreddit meme

You will get postData.json and images directory containing images scraped from given subreddits

Why reddit?

• First, I love reddit!
• Second, Reddit has a very friendly APIs which allowed me to focus on my main objectives.