Get LinkPost URL & SelfPost Body From Post.md

Retrieve a LinkPost URL or SelfPost Body From a Reddit Post

Author

Kris Craig

Required libraries

Reddit.NET

Overview

Retrieves the top posts from r/movies. For each post, the title is output on a line by itself, followed by either the URL if it's a link post or the body if it's a self post.

Library Installation

In the NuGet Package Manager console:

Install-Package Reddit

The Code

using Reddit;
using Reddit.Controllers;

...

class Program
{
	static void Main(string[] args)
	{
		(new PostsHelper("YourRedditAppID", "YourBotUserRefreshToken")).ListPosts("movies");
	}
}

public class PostsHelper
{
	private RedditClient Reddit { get; set; }
	
	public PostsHelper(string appId, string refreshToken)
	{
		Reddit = new RedditClient(appId, refreshToken);
	}
	
	// Display the title of each post followed by the link URL (if it's a link post) or the Body (if it's a self post).  --Kris
	public void ListPosts(string subreddit)
	{
		foreach (Post post in Reddit.Subreddit(subreddit).Posts.Hot)
		{
			Console.WriteLine("Title: " + post.Title);
			
			// Both LinkPost and SelfPost derive from the Post class.  --Kris
			Console.WriteLine(post.Listing.IsSelf
				? "Body: " + ((SelfPost)post).SelfText
				: "URL: " + ((LinkPost)post).URL);
		}
	}
}

Source File

Get LinkPost URL & SelfPost Body From Post.cs