import praw outfile = open('temp.js', 'w') credentials = open('credentials', 'r') client_id = credentials.readline().strip(' \t\n\r') client_secret = credentials.readline().strip(' \t\n\r') startId = 1778 reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id=client_id, client_secret=client_secret, user_agent='atlas_bot') for submission in reddit.subreddit('placeAtlas').new(limit=220): #print(dir(submission)) if(submission.link_flair_text == "New Entry"): text = submission.selftext text = text.replace("\"id\": 0,", "\"id\": 0,\n\t\t\"submitted_by\": \""+submission.author.name+"\",") lines = text.split("\n") for i, line in enumerate(lines): if("\"id\": 0" in line): lines[i] = line.replace("\"id\": 0", "\"id\": "+str(startId)) startId = startId + 1 text = "\n".join(lines) outfile.write(text+",") print("written "+submission.title) else: print("skipped "+submission.title)