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Add (optional) data persistence

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
28/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python, sqlite
Domain
backend, cli, databases

Research direction

Start by tracing the scraper and command-line entry point to see what comment and video-link data are currently available. The issue leaves the selected fields, database structure, and deduplication behavior undecided. Done means optional SQLite persistence records selected scraped comments and the bot's subreddit video links while the default operation remains lightweight.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

enhancement

Since the bot is scraping /r/all anyway, would be nice to build a dataset to play with later. The bot should store select information from all the comments it scrapes in a SQLite database. Also, the bot should store information about itself: in particular, what video links it's collecting from each subreddit. Would be interesting to see which videos are popular in which subreddits. Not sure whether or not the deduplication is something I care about or not here.

Data persistence should be turned on via command line argument: default bot operation should be as lightweight as possible.

Dominant language
Python
Stars
26
Forks
5
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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