Searching subreddits for a small string array of keywords

[chrisjmccrum]

First off, it's refreshing to find a simple library to access the Reddit API. I was hoping you could help point me in the right direction. Basically, I have a web application where each record has a handful of keywords\tags associated with it. I want to search a couple of subreddits with those keywords in both the post and comments. Any thoughts on the simplest way to approach this?

[JedS6391]

Thanks for reaching out!

To search for a keyword in submissions for a particular subreddit, you can use the SearchSubmissionsAsync method, e.g.

var keyword = "...";
var subreddit = client.Subreddit("...");

var searchResults = subreddit.SearchSubmissionsAsync(
    keyword,
    builder => builder.WithSyntax(SearchQuerySyntax.Lucene));

await foreach (var submissionDetails in searchResults)
{
    // Do something with submission
    ...
}

You can find more details of how to use the search API (e.g. the query syntax) in the reddit documentation.

As far as searching comments is concerned, I don't believe the reddit API directly offers any way to do this. There are other services like pushshift.io that support more search options, but this client doesn't currently integrate with that service.

If you want to search new submissions/comments for keywords as they become available, take a look at the streaming sample.

Hope that helps!