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Created by Kris Craig.
Reddit.NET is a .NET Standard managed library that provides easy access to the Reddit API with virtually no boilerplate code required. Keep reading below for code examples.
Currently, the library supports 171 of the 204 endpoints listed in the API documentation. All of them (except voting and admin-reporting, for obvious reasons) are covered by integration tests and all 392 of the tests are currently passing. All of the most commonly used endpoints are supported.
Reddit.NET is FOSS (MIT license) and was written in C#. It can be found on Github at: https://github.com/sirkris/Reddit.NET
Kris Craig, Andrew Hall, Ben Mitchell, Daryl Harrison, Emiel Dorsman, JP Dillingham, origine999, Kevin Smith, jpsak09, Kostyantyn Sharovarsky, Leland Olney, Mingwei Samuel, John Kelly, Adam Gauthier, Marek Toman, John Styler, Adam Woodhead, Marcel Croes, CPKreuz, Kyle Ratti, Emil Dahlberg, Krutonium, Nguyen Minh Phuc, SimpleBear, and the knowledgeable people over at r/csharp and r/redditdev.
Kris Craig, Ben Mitchell, and Emiel Dorsman.
Reddit.NET can be installed via NuGet. You can find it at: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Reddit
To install via the Visual Studio NuGet Package Manager Console (in VS 2017, you'll find it under Tools->NuGet Package Manager->NuGet Package Manager Console):
PM> Install-Package Reddit
To create a new API instance bound to a specific user's refresh token in an installed app:
using Reddit;
...
var reddit = new RedditClient("YourRedditAppID", "YourBotUserRefreshToken");If you're using a "script"-type app instead, you'll also need to pass your app secret:
using Reddit;
...
// You can also pass them as named parameters.
var reddit = new RedditClient(appId: "YourRedditAppID", appSecret: "YourRedditAppSecret", refreshToken: "YourBotUserRefreshToken");See below for more detailed usage examples.
Please direct any inquiries about Reddit.NET to the project creator, Kris Craig.
Reddit.NET follows a model-controller pattern, with each layer serving a distinct purpose. The model classes/methods (which can be accessed directly if for some reason you don't want to go through the controller) handle all the REST interactions and deserializations. The controller classes/methods organize these API features into a cleaner OO interface, with an emphasis on intuitive design and minimizing any need for messy boilerplate code.
You'll notice that each model class corresponds to a section in the API documentation. Each method represents one of those endpoints with their respective fields passed as method parameters.
Here's a list of the model classes:
- Account
- Emoji
- Flair
- LinksAndComments
- Listings
- LiveThreads
- Misc
- Moderation
- Modmail
- Multis
- PrivateMessages
- RedditGold (all untested so not currently supported)
- Search
- Subreddits
- Users
- Widgets
- Wiki
Ratelimit handling also occurs in the model layer. If it's less than a minute, the library will automatically wait the specified number of seconds then retry. This can be easily tested using the LiveThread workflow tests. If it's more than a minute, an exception will bubble up and it'll be up to the app developer to decide what to do with it. Reddit.NET has a built-in limit of no more than 60 requests in any 1-minute period. This is a safety net designed to keep us from inadvertantly violating the API speed limit.
JSON return data is automatically deserialized to its appropriate type. All 170 of these custom types can be found in Models.Structures.
Many model methods also have async counterparts.
These are the classes with which app developers will be doing all or most of their interactions. While the models are structured to closely mirror the API documentation, the controllers are structured to create an intuitive, object-oriented interface with the API, so you'll notice I took a lot more liberties in this layer.
The controllers also provide other features, like asynchronous monitoring and automatic caching of certain data sets. I'll get into that stuff in more detail below.
Each controller class corresponds to a Reddit object of some kind (subreddit, post, user, etc). Here's a list of the controller classes:
Provides access to data and endpoints related to the authenticated user.
Represents a Reddit comment and provides access to comment-related data and endpoints.
Represents a set of comment replies to a post or comment. Provides access to all sorts and monitoring. Similar in purpose to SubredditPosts.
This is a special controller that provides direct access to the models and keeps them in sync.
Provides access to data and endpoints related to a subreddit's flairs.
Represents a Reddit link post and provides access to related data and endpoints.
Represents a Reddit self post and provides access to related data and endpoints.
Base class for LinkPost and SelfPost.
Represents a Reddit live event. It provides access to related data, endpoints, and monitoring.
Provides access to data and endpoints related to the authenticated user's modmail.
Provides access to data and endpoints related to the authenticated user's private messages.
Represents a subreddit and provides access to related data and endpoints.
Represents a set of a subreddit's posts. Provides access to all sorts and monitoring. Similar in purpose to Comments.
Represents a Reddit user and provides access to related data and endpoints.
Represents a subreddit's wiki and provides access to related data and endpoints.
Represents a wiki page and provides access to related data and endpoints.
Many controller methods also have async counterparts.
Reddit.NET allows for asynchronous, event-based monitoring of various things. For example, if you're monitoring a subreddit for new posts, the monitoring thread will do its API query once every 1.5 seconds times the total number of current monitoring threads (more on that below). When there's a change in the return data, the library identifies any posts that were added or removed since the last query and includes them in the eventargs. The app developer can then write a custom callback function that will be called whenever the event fires, at which point the dev can do whatever they want with it from there.
Reddit.NET automatically scales the delay between each monitoring query depending on how many things are being monitored. This ensures that the library will average 1 monitoring query every 1.5 seconds, regardless of how many things are being monitored at once, leaving 25% of available bandwidth remaining for any non-monitoring queries you wish to run. There is theoretically no limit to how many things can be monitored at once, hardware and other considerations notwithstanding. In one of the stress tests, I have it simultaneously montioring 60 posts for new comments. In this case, the delay between each monitoring thread's query is 90 seconds (actually, it's 91.5 because it's also monitoring a subreddit for new posts at the same time). It is possible to override this behavior and specify a monitoring delay of your own choosing.
If you want to see how much load this can handle, check out the PoliceState() stress test. That one was especially fun to write.
Here's a list of things that can currently be monitored by Reddit.NET:
- Monitor a post for new comment replies (any sort).
- Monitor a comment for new comment replies (any sort).
- Monitor a comment for meaningful changes to its score (net upvotes).
- Monitor a live thread for new/removed updates.
- Monitor a live thread for new/removed contributors.
- Monitor a live thread for any configuration changes.
- Monitor the authenticated user's modmail for new messages (any sort).
- Monitor the authenticated user's modqueue for new items.
- Monitor the authenticated user's inbox for new messages.
- Monitor the authenticated user's unread queue for new messages.
- Monitor the authenticated user's sent messages for new messages.
- Monitor a subreddit for new posts (any sort).
- Monitor a subreddit's wiki for any added/removed pages.
- Monitor a wiki page for new revisions.
- Monitor a post for any configuration changes to edited, removed, spam, or nsfw.
- Monitor a post for meaningful changes to its score (net upvotes).
- Monitor a user for new posts.
- Monitor a user for new comments.
Each monitoring session occurs in its own thread.
There are 5 projects in the Reddit.NET solution:
A .NET Core console application that greatly simplifies the OAuth token retrieval process. Please review the video below for usage instructions:
A .NET Standard library that is used by the AuthTokenRetriever app. You can also use this in your own apps to retrieve auth tokens for new users.
A simple example .NET Core console application that demonstrates some of Reddit.NET's functionality. If you have Visual Studio 2017 or later, you can run it using debug. You'll need to set your application ID and refresh token in the debug arguments. Only passive operations are demonstrated in this example app; nothing is created or modified in any way.
The main library. This is what the app dev includes in their project.
This project contains unit, workflow, and stress tests using MSTest. There are currently 392 tests, all passing. All of the supported endpoints are included in the tests, except for vote and admin-reporting endpoints.
Running the tests is easy. All you need is an app ID and two refresh tokens (the second is used for things like accepting invitations and replying to messages). The first refresh token should belong to a well-established account that wouldn't run into any special ratelimits or restrictions that might make certain endpoints unavailable. The second refresh token's account does not have any special requirements, as it's only used in a handful of workflow tests. You will also need to specify a test subreddit. It should either be a non-existing subreddit (the tests will create it) or an existing subreddit in which the primary test user is a moderator with full privileges. If you're going with a non-existing subreddit, you'll need to run the test that creates it first; there's a special playlist just for that and obviously you'll only need to do it that first time. The same test subreddit should be reused on subsequent tests since there's no way to delete a subreddit once it's been created. To set these values, simply edit the Reddit.NETTestsData.xml file. Here's what it looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Rows>
<Row>
<AppId>Your_App_ID</AppId>
<RefreshToken>Primary_Test_User's_Token</RefreshToken>
<RefreshToken2>Secondary_Test_User's_Token</RefreshToken2>
<Subreddit>Your_Test_Subreddit</Subreddit>
</Row>
</Rows>As you can see, it's pretty intuitive in terms of what goes where. Once these values are set and you've created the test subreddit (either via the corresponding unit test or manually with the primary test user having full mod privs), you can run all the tests in any order and as many times as you want after that.
Many tests take less than a second to complete. Others can take up to a few minutes, depending on what's being tested. The workflow tests tend to take longer than the unit tests and the stress tests take longer than the workflow tests. In fact, the stress tests take considerably longer; PoliceState() alone takes roughly 80 minutes to complete.
using Reddit;
using Reddit.Controllers;
using Reddit.Controllers.EventArgs;
using System;
...
// Create a new Reddit.NET instance.
var r = new RedditClient("MyAppID", "MyRefreshToken");
// Display the name and cake day of the authenticated user.
Console.WriteLine("Username: " + r.Account.Me.Name);
Console.WriteLine("Cake Day: " + r.Account.Me.Created.ToString("D"));
// Retrieve the authenticated user's recent post history.
// Change "new" to "newForced" if you don't want older stickied profile posts to appear first.
var postHistory = r.Account.Me.PostHistory(sort: "new");
// Retrieve the authenticated user's recent comment history.
var commentHistory = r.Account.Me.CommentHistory(sort: "new");
// Create a new subreddit.
var mySub = r.Subreddit("MyNewSubreddit", "My subreddit's title", "Description", "Sidebar").Create();
// Get info on another subreddit.
var askReddit = r.Subreddit("AskReddit").About();
// Get the top post from a subreddit.
var topPost = askReddit.Posts.Top[0];
// Create a new self post.
var mySelfPost = mySub.SelfPost("Self Post Title", "Self post text.").Submit();
// Create a new link post.
// Use .Submit(resubmit: true) instead to force resubmission of duplicate links.
var myLinkPost = mySub.LinkPost("Link Post Title", "http://www.google.com").Submit();
// Comment on a post.
var myComment = myLinkPost.Reply("This is my comment.");
// Reply to a comment.
var myCommentReply = myComment.Reply("This is my comment reply.");
// Create a new subreddit, then create a new link post on said subreddit,
// then comment on said post, then reply to said comment, then delete said comment reply.
// Because I said so.
r.Subreddit("MySub", "Title", "Desc", "Sidebar")
.Create()
.SelfPost("MyPost")
.Submit()
.Reply("My comment.")
.Reply("This comment will be deleted.")
.Delete();
// Asynchronously monitor r/AskReddit for new posts.
askReddit.Posts.GetNew();
askReddit.Posts.NewUpdated += C_NewPostsUpdated;
askReddit.Posts.MonitorNew();
public static void C_NewPostsUpdated(object sender, PostsUpdateEventArgs e)
{
foreach (var post in e.Added)
{
Console.WriteLine("New Post by " + post.Author + ": " + post.Title);
}
}
// Stop monitoring r/AskReddit for new posts.
askReddit.Posts.MonitorNew();
askReddit.Posts.NewUpdated -= C_NewPostsUpdated;The controllers basically just make calls to the models, which can be accessed directly via the Dispatch controller. As such, it is possible to bypass the controllers entirely for most things, so long as you don't mind the bulkier code. This is only recommended for scenarios where the convenience-oriented features of the controllers aren't needed and would just get in the way. In most cases, it is recommended that you instead use the controllers as demonstrated in the above examples.
Here's how you can do some basic things using the models:
using Reddit;
using Reddit.Inputs;
using Reddit.Inputs.LinksAndComments;
using Reddit.Inputs.Subreddits;
using Reddit.Inputs.Users;
using Reddit.Things;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
...
// Create a new Reddit.NET instance.
var r = new RedditClient("MyAppID", "MyRefreshToken");
// Display the name and cake day of the authenticated user.
Console.WriteLine("Username: " + r.Models.Account.Me().Name);
Console.WriteLine("Cake Day: " + r.Models.Account.Me().Created.ToString("D"));
// Retrieve the authenticated user's recent post history.
var postContainer = r.Models.Users.PostHistory(r.Models.Account.Me().Name, "overview", new UsersHistoryInput());
var postHistory = new List<Post>();
foreach (PostChild postChild in postContainer.JSON.Data.Things)
{
if (postChild.Data != null)
{
postHistory.Add(postChild.Data);
}
}
// Retrieve the authenticated user's recent comment history.
var commentContainer = r.Models.Users.CommentHistory(r.Models.Account.Me().Name, "comments", new UsersHistoryInput());
var commentHistory = new List<Comment>();
foreach (CommentChild commentChild in commentContainer.JSON.Data.Things)
{
if (commentChild.Data != null)
{
commentHistory.Add(commentChild.Data);
}
}
// Create a new subreddit.
r.Models.Subreddits.SiteAdmin(new SubredditsSiteAdminInput(name: "MyNewSubreddit", title: "My subreddit's title", publicDescription: "Description", description: "Sidebar"));
var mySub = r.Models.Subreddits.About("MyNewSubreddit");
// Get info on another subreddit.
var askReddit = r.Models.Subreddits.About("AskReddit");
// Get the top post from a subreddit.
var topPost = r.Models.Listings.Top(new TimedCatSrListingInput(), "AskReddit").JSON.Data.Things[0].Data;
// Create a new self post.
r.Models.LinksAndComments.Submit(new LinksAndCommentsSubmitInput(title: "Self Post Title", kind: "self", text: "Self post text.", sr: "MyNewSubreddit"));
// Create a new link post.
r.Models.LinksAndComments.Submit(new LinksAndCommentsSubmitInput(title: "Link Post Title", url: "http://www.google.com", sr: "MyNewSubreddit"));
// Comment on a post.
r.Models.LinksAndComments.Comment(new LinksAndCommentsThingInput("This is my comment.", topPost.Name));For more examples, check out the Example and Reddit.NETTests projects.
All classes/methods/etc can be looked up from here. Generated using Doxygen.
This project adheres (mostly) to standard C# Coding Conventions.
The Gitflow branching model is used on this project.
ALL commits must be made on a feature branch checked out from develop! Any requests to merge direct commits to either master or develop will be subject to rejection.
Please do all of your commits on a feature branch that you created from the develop branch. When you are ready to merge, you'll want to follow these steps:
- On the Git command-line, do:
git checkout develop
git pull origin develop
git checkout (YourFeatureBranch)
git rebase develop
- Create a new pull request.
See: Running the Tests
GET /api/v1/me
GET /api/v1/me/karma
GET /api/v1/me/prefs
PATCH /api/v1/me/prefs
GET /api/v1/me/trophies
GET /prefs/<where>
POST /api/v1/<subreddit>/emoji_asset_upload_s3.json
GET /api/v1/<subreddit>/emojis/all
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/clearflairtemplates
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/deleteflair
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/deleteflairtemplate
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/flair
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/flairconfig
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/flaircsv
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/api/flairlist
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/flairselector
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/flairtemplate
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/flairtemplate_v2
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/api/link_flair
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/api/link_flair_v2
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/selectflair
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/setflairenabled
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/api/user_flair
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/api/user_flair_v2
POST /api/comment
POST /api/del
POST /api/editusertext
POST /api/hide
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/api/info
POST /api/lock
POST /api/marknsfw
GET /api/morechildren
POST /api/report
POST /api/save
POST /api/sendreplies
POST /api/set_contest_mode
POST /api/set_subreddit_sticky
POST /api/set_suggested_sort
POST /api/spoiler
POST /api/submit
POST /api/unhide
POST /api/unlock
POST /api/unmarknsfw
POST /api/unsave
POST /api/unspoiler
POST /api/vote
GET /best
GET /by_id/<names>
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/comments/<article>
GET /duplicates/<article>
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/hot
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/new
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/random
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/rising
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/<sort>
POST /api/live/create
POST /api/live/<thread>/accept_contributor_invite
POST /api/live/<thread>/close_thread
POST /api/live/<thread>/delete_update
POST /api/live/<thread>/edit
POST /api/live/<thread>/invite_contributor
POST /api/live/<thread>/leave_contributor
POST /api/live/<thread>/report
POST /api/live/<thread>/rm_contributor
POST /api/live/<thread>/rm_contributor_invite
POST /api/live/<thread>/set_contributor_permissions
POST /api/live/<thread>/strike_update
POST /api/live/<thread>/update
GET /live/<thread>
GET /live/<thread>/about
GET /live/<thread>/contributors
GET /live/<thread>/updates/<update_id>
POST /api/block
POST /api/collapse_message
POST /api/compose
POST /api/del_msg
POST /api/read_all_messages
POST /api/read_message
POST /api/uncollapse_message
POST /api/unread_message
GET /message/<where>
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/api/saved_media_text
GET /api/v1/scopes
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/about/log
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/about/<location>
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/accept_moderator_invite
POST /api/approve
POST /api/distinguish
POST /api/ignore_reports
POST /api/leavecontributor
POST /api/leavemoderator
POST /api/remove
POST /api/unignore_reports
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/stylesheet
GET /api/mod/conversations
POST /api/mod/conversations
GET /api/mod/conversations/<conversation_id>
POST /api/mod/conversations/<conversation_id>
DELETE /api/mod/conversations/<conversation_id>/highlight
POST /api/mod/conversations/<conversation_id>/highlight
POST /api/mod/conversations/<conversation_id>/mute
POST /api/mod/conversations/<conversation_id>/unmute
GET /api/mod/conversations/<conversation_id>/user
POST /api/mod/conversations/read
GET /api/mod/conversations/subreddits
POST /api/mod/conversations/unread
GET /api/mod/conversations/unread/count
POST /api/multi/copy
GET /api/multi/mine
GET /api/multi/user/<username>
DELETE /api/multi/<multipath>
GET /api/multi/<multipath>
POST /api/multi/<multipath>
PUT /api/multi/<multipath>
GET /api/multi/<multipath>/description
PUT /api/multi/<multipath>/description
DELETE /api/multi/<multipath>/r/<srname>
GET /api/multi/<multipath>/r/<srname>
PUT /api/multi/<multipath>/r/<srname>
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/search
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/about/<where>
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/delete_sr_banner
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/delete_sr_header
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/delete_sr_icon
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/delete_sr_img
GET /api/recommend/sr/srnames
GET /api/search_reddit_names
POST /api/search_subreddits
POST /api/site_admin
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/api/submit_text
GET /api/subreddit_autocomplete
GET /api/subreddit_autocomplete_v2
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/subreddit_stylesheet
POST /api/subscribe
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/upload_sr_img
GET /r/<subreddit>/about
GET /r/<subreddit>/about/edit
GET /r/<subreddit>/about/rules
GET /r/<subreddit>/about/traffic
GET /subreddits/mine/<where>
GET /subreddits/search
GET /subreddits/<where>
GET /users/<where>
POST /api/block_user
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/friend
POST /api/report_user
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/setpermissions
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/unfriend
GET /api/user_data_by_account_ids
GET /api/username_available
DELETE /api/v1/me/friends/<username>
GET /api/v1/me/friends/<username>
PUT /api/v1/me/friends/<username>
GET /api/v1/user/<username>/trophies
GET /user/<username>/about
GET /user/<username>/<where>
POST /api/widget
DELETE /api/widget/<widget_id>
PUT /api/widget/<widget_id>
PATCH /api/widget_order/<section>
GET /api/widgets
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/wiki/alloweditor/<act>
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/wiki/edit
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/wiki/hide
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/api/wiki/revert
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/wiki/pages
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/wiki/revisions
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/wiki/revisions/<page>
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/wiki/settings/<page>
POST [/r/<subreddit>]/wiki/settings/<page>
GET [/r/<subreddit>]/wiki/<page>
Total: 171 / 204 (84%)
There are 33 endpoints listed in the API docs that are not currently supported (mostly because I haven't been able to get them to work yet).
Virtually all of the supported endpoints are covered by tests (voting and admin-reporting were manually tested for obvious reasons) and all of those tests are passing.
Dedicated in loving memory to Daisy, loyal family dog of 14 years. We miss you.