RandomRedditMemesAPI

an API that returns random Reddit Submissions written in Java

build and run

build project

first make sure you're using Gradle 6.8 and openjdk-jdk8

to build the project just run:

gradle build

run

to execute the .jar archive you built before run:

java -jar ./build/libs/RandomRedditMemesAPI.jar

run inside docker

to execute the .jar file inside docker use docker-compose:

docker-compose -p RandomRedditMemesAPI up -d

build docker image

if you want to build a full docker image run:

docker build .

alternatively you can use ./docker/docker-compose.yml

API

the baseurl for the API is: http://127.0.0.1/api/v1

subreddits

subreddit syntax [baseurl]/r/[subreddit]/[type]

[type] syntax

all - returns the first 100 submissions of the subreddits page
random - returns one random submission of the first 100
[0-99] - returns a specific one
if undefined returns random

the response looks like:

{
    "subs":[{
        "score": Integer,
        "nsfw": Boolean,
        "author": String,
        "text": String,
        "time": Integer,
        "title": String,
        "downvotes": Integer,
        "permalink": String,
        "subreddit": String,
        "url": String,
    }],
    "error": Boolean/String,
    "type":String
}

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