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-rw-r--r--bot/utils/converters.py32
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bot/utils/converters.py b/bot/utils/converters.py
index 228714c9..27804170 100644
--- a/bot/utils/converters.py
+++ b/bot/utils/converters.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
import discord
-from discord.ext.commands.converter import MessageConverter
+from discord.ext.commands import BadArgument, Context
+from discord.ext.commands.converter import Converter, MessageConverter
class WrappedMessageConverter(MessageConverter):
@@ -14,3 +15,32 @@ class WrappedMessageConverter(MessageConverter):
argument = argument[1:-1]
return await super().convert(ctx, argument)
+
+
+class Subreddit(Converter):
+ """Forces a string to begin with "r/" and checks if it's a valid subreddit."""
+
+ @staticmethod
+ async def convert(ctx: Context, sub: str) -> str:
+ """
+ Force sub to begin with "r/" and check if it's a valid subreddit.
+
+ If sub is a valid subreddit, return it prepended with "r/"
+ """
+ sub = sub.lower()
+
+ if not sub.startswith("r/"):
+ sub = f"r/{sub}"
+
+ resp = await ctx.bot.http_session.get(
+ "https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/search.json",
+ params={"q": sub}
+ )
+
+ json = await resp.json()
+ if not json["data"]["children"]:
+ raise BadArgument(
+ f"The subreddit `{sub}` either doesn't exist, or it has no posts."
+ )
+
+ return sub