import re import praw f = open("reddit/credentials.txt", "r") lines = f.readlines() f.close() dict = {} for line in lines: data = re.split(" +", line) dict[data[0]] = data[1].rstrip() reddit = praw.Reddit(user_agent = dict['user_agent'], client_id = dict['client_id'], client_secret = dict['client_secret'], username = dict['username'], password = dict['password']) file = open("/tmp/reddit-post-url.txt", "r") # gaahhh lines = file.readlines() title = lines[0].rstrip() url = lines[1].rstrip() subred = reddit.subreddit(dict['subreddit']) rid = subred.submit(title = title, url = url) print(rid) # submission = reddit.submission(id='edmcwf') # print(submission.title) # print(submission.url)