Reddit

This is CPPRAW’s main class, this must be the first class to be instantiated.

Parameters

std::string client_id

Your client id.

std::string client_secret

Your client secret.

std::string username

Your reddit’s account username.

std::string password

Your reddit’s account password.

std::string user_agent

Your user agent.

Throws std::invalid_argument if there was an error getting the bearer token from the reddit API.

cppraw::reddit reddit("client-id", "client-secret","reddit-user", "reddit-password", "user-agent");

Both the client-id and the client-secret can be obtained in https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps/

The user-agent is a string that tells the server what your application is. It can be anything, but it is not recommended to spoof a web browser or other application. For example, a user agent can be “CPPRAW v0.0.4 by u/Daeli_Smile”.

By default, your bearer token is saved to a macro-defined file called TOKEN_FILE, which is set to “token.txt”. If you wish to change the file in which it is stored, you can #define TOKEN_FILE "another_file.txt" before including CPPRAW/CPPRAW.hpp.

The token is saved with its expiration date, so that you dont have to get a new token every time your application is run.

Member functions

subreddit

This function returns a subreddit object refering to the subreddit you provided.

Parameters

std::string subreddit

The name of the subreddit you wish to look for.

Returns cppraw::subreddit object.

Throws std::invalid_argument either if the subreddit is not found or if there was an error while getting the subreddit information from the reddit API.

cppraw::subreddit subreddit = reddit.subreddit("cpp");

post

This function returns a post object refering to the post you provided.

Parameters

std::string subreddit

The name of the subreddit.

std::string id

The id of the post you wish to look for.

Returns cppraw::post object.

Throws std::invalid_argument either if the subreddit is not found or if there was an error getting the subreddit or post information from the reddit API.

cppraw::post post = reddit.post("cpp", "vgy0rt");

user

This function returns a cppraw::user object refering to the user you provided.

Parameters

std::string name

The name of the user you wish to look for. Case insensitive.

Returns cppraw::user object.

Throws std::invalid_argument if there was an error getting the user’s information from the reddit API.

cppraw::user user = reddit.user("Daeli_Smile");