using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

//using System.IO;

using System.Linq;

using System.Net.Http;

using System.Text.Json;

using System.Threading;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

​

namespace RedSortScore

{

    class Program

    {

        static async Task Main(string[] args)

        {

            string subreddit = "antimlm";

            var startDate = new DateTime(/*2017 fiddle slow*/2020, 1, 1);

            var data = new PSData() { data = new List<Pushshift>() };

            using (var client = new HttpClient())

            {

                for (var dt = new DateTimeOffset(startDate); dt < DateTime.Now; dt = dt.AddMonths(1))

                {

                    var url = "http://api.pushshift.io/reddit/search/submission/?" +

                        "size=100&sort_type=score&sort=desc&is_self=true&fields=title,full_link,score,selftext,id&score=>100" +

                        $"&subreddit={subreddit}&after={dt.ToUnixTimeSeconds()}&before={dt.AddMonths(1).ToUnixTimeSeconds()}";

                    string response;

                    try { response = await client.GetStringAsync(url); }

                    catch

                    {

                        Thread.Sleep(5000);

                        response = await client.GetStringAsync(url);

                    }

                    var json = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<PSData>(response);

                    json.data.ForEach(d =>

                        {

                            if (d.selftext == null)

                                d.selftext = "";

                            if (!new[] { "[removed]", "[deleted]" }.Contains(d.selftext))

                            {

                                d.selftext = d.selftext.Length.ToString();

                                data.data.Add(d);

                            }

                        });

                    break; /*too slow for fiddle*/

                }

            }

​

            //File.WriteAllText("alldata.json", JsonSerializer.Serialize<PSData>(data));

            //var data = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<PSData>(File.ReadAllText("alldata.json"));

            var alllines = data.data.OrderByDescending(a => a.score).Take(250)

                .Select((a, i) => $"{i + 1}. {a.score}/{a.selftext} [{a.title}](http://redd.it/{a.id})\n");

            //File.WriteAllLines("alllines.txt", alllines);

            alllines.ToList().ForEach(a => Console.WriteLine(a));

        }

​

        private class PSData { public List<Pushshift> data { get; set; } }

​

        private class Pushshift

        {

            public string id { get; set; }

            public string title { get; set; }

            public string full_link { get; set; }

            public int score { get; set; }

            public string selftext { get; set; }

        }

    }

}

​