dragon-bot/app/get_from_reddit.py

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import random
import string
import requests
def get_image(boards, nsfw=False):
"""
get_image(boards, nsfw=False)
Returns a URL to an image on reddit from a random board in the boards list
as long as it is hosted on one of the domains in the domains list
"""
# Spoof our user agent with each request so we dont get rate limited
random_user_agent = "".join(
random.SystemRandom().choice(string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits)
for _ in range(5)
)
if isinstance(boards, list):
boards = random.choice(boards)
request_string = f"https://reddit.com/r/{boards}/random.json"
if not nsfw:
# Append this header to the request. Tells the API to only return SFW results
request_string += "?obey_over18=true"
response = requests.get(
request_string, headers={"User-agent": random_user_agent}
).json()[0]["data"]["children"][0]["data"]
image_url = "https://rxddit.com" + response["permalink"]
if "youtu.be" in response["url"]:
image_url = response["url"]
return image_url