Reddit Phases

View your reddit comment history by phases of subreddit activity

How To Use

0. Ensure you're running Xcode 11.4.1 or later
   • May get "expression failed to parse, unknown error" when running previous versions
1. Download the repo and open the playground file
2. Replace YOUR_REDDIT_USERNAME at the top of the file with any valid username
3. Modify the period, maxComments, and filters to customize the output
   • Why a max of 1000 comments? Sorry, reddit api limit!
4. Enjoy!

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This was a fun project to work on! Here are some of the accomplishments.

• Use of reddit api to fetch any user's comment history (no OAuth!)
  • Recursive callbacks with after param to return up to 1000 comments
• Easy json parsing to model objects using Codable
• Dictionary data grouping by given period (day, week, month, etc)
• Learning to graph with the lightweight SwiftChart library
• UICollectionView for subreddit selection
  • Designing custom, self-sizing cells
• Improved familiarity with Xcode Playgrounds

Open Source Dependencies

Thank you to gpbl for SwiftChart and mischa-hildebrand for AlignedCollectionViewFlowLayout. Adopting both libraries made it much easier to focus on the core of this project!