Stopped using global variable for submission as well unneeded env vars

.pylintrc

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ ignored-modules=
 
 # Python code to execute, usually for sys.path manipulation such as
 # pygtk.require().
-#init-hook=
+init-hook='import sys; sys.path.append("/")'
 
 # Use multiple processes to speed up Pylint. Specifying 0 will auto-detect the
 # number of processors available to use.

main.py

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def main():
     download_screenshots_of_reddit_posts(reddit_object, number_of_comments)
     download_background()
     chop_background_video(length)
-    make_final_video(number_of_comments, length)
+    make_final_video(number_of_comments, length, reddit_object)
 
 
 def run_many(times):

reddit/subreddit.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import re
-from os import getenv, environ
+from os import getenv
 
 import praw
 from praw.models import MoreComments
@@ -8,19 +8,6 @@ from utils.console import print_step, print_substep
 from utils.subreddit import get_subreddit_undone
 from utils.videos import check_done
 
-TEXT_WHITELIST = set("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 1234567890")
-
-
-def textify(text):
-    return "".join(filter(TEXT_WHITELIST.__contains__, text))
-
-
-def try_env(param, backup):
-    try:
-        return environ[param]
-    except KeyError:
-        return backup
-
 
 def get_subreddit_threads():
     """
@@ -90,20 +77,20 @@ def get_subreddit_threads():
     print_substep(f"Thread has {upvotes} upvotes", style="bold blue")
     print_substep(f"Thread has a upvote ratio of {ratio}%", style="bold blue")
     print_substep(f"Thread has {num_comments} comments", style="bold blue")
-    environ["VIDEO_TITLE"] = str(textify(submission.title))
-    environ["VIDEO_ID"] = str(textify(submission.id))
 
     content["thread_url"] = f"https://reddit.com{submission.permalink}"
     content["thread_title"] = submission.title
     content["thread_post"] = submission.selftext
+    content["thread_id"] = submission.id
     content["comments"] = []
+
     for top_level_comment in submission.comments:
         if isinstance(top_level_comment, MoreComments):
             continue
         if top_level_comment.body in ["[removed]", "[deleted]"]:
             continue  # # see https://github.com/JasonLovesDoggo/RedditVideoMakerBot/issues/78
         if not top_level_comment.stickied:
-            if len(top_level_comment.body) <= int(try_env("MAX_COMMENT_LENGTH", 500)):
+            if len(top_level_comment.body) <= int(getenv("MAX_COMMENT_LENGTH", "500")):
                 if not top_level_comment.author is None:
                     content["comments"].append(
                         {

video_creation/final_video.py

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 import json
-import os
 import time
 import multiprocessing
+import re
+import os
 from os.path import exists
 
 from moviepy.editor import (
@@ -17,7 +18,6 @@ from moviepy.editor import (
 from moviepy.video.io import ffmpeg_tools
 from rich.console import Console
 
-from reddit import subreddit
 from utils.cleanup import cleanup
 from utils.console import print_step, print_substep
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ console = Console()
 W, H = 1080, 1920
 
 
-def make_final_video(number_of_clips: int, length: int):
+def make_final_video(number_of_clips: int, length: int, reddit_obj: dict[str]):
     """Gathers audio clips, gathers all screenshots, stitches them together and saves the final video to assets/temp
 
     Args:
@@ -116,13 +116,14 @@ def make_final_video(number_of_clips: int, length: int):
     )
     image_concat.audio = audio_composite
     final = CompositeVideoClip([background_clip, image_concat])
+    title = re.sub(r"[^\w\s-]", "", reddit_obj["thread_title"])
+    idx = re.sub(r"[^\w\s-]", "", reddit_obj["thread_id"])
+    filename = f"{title}.mp4"
 
-    filename = f"{get_video_title()}.mp4"
-
-    save_data(filename)
+    save_data(filename, title, idx)
 
     if not exists("./results"):
-        print_substep("the results folder didn't exist so I made it")
+        print_substep("The results folder didn't exist so I made it")
         os.mkdir("./results")
 
     final.write_videofile(
@@ -144,11 +145,11 @@ def make_final_video(number_of_clips: int, length: int):
     print_substep("See result in the results folder!")
 
     print_step(
-        f"Reddit title: {os.getenv('VIDEO_TITLE')} \n Background Credit: {os.getenv('background_credit')}"
+        f'Reddit title: { reddit_obj["thread_title"] } \n Background Credit: {os.getenv("background_credit")}'
     )
 
 
-def save_data(filename: str):
+def save_data(filename: str, reddit_title: str, reddit_id: str):
     """Saves the videos that have already been generated to a JSON file in video_creation/data/videos.json
 
     Args:
@@ -156,28 +157,15 @@ def save_data(filename: str):
     """
     with open("./video_creation/data/videos.json", "r+", encoding="utf-8") as raw_vids:
         done_vids = json.load(raw_vids)
-        if str(subreddit.submission.id) in [video["id"] for video in done_vids]:
+        if reddit_id in [video["id"] for video in done_vids]:
             return  # video already done but was specified to continue anyway in the .env file
         payload = {
-            "id": str(os.getenv("VIDEO_ID")),
+            "id": reddit_id,
             "time": str(int(time.time())),
             "background_credit": str(os.getenv("background_credit")),
-            "reddit_title": str(os.getenv("VIDEO_TITLE")),
+            "reddit_title": reddit_title,
             "filename": filename,
         }
         done_vids.append(payload)
         raw_vids.seek(0)
         json.dump(done_vids, raw_vids, ensure_ascii=False, indent=4)
-
-
-def get_video_title() -> str:
-    """Gets video title from env variable or gives it the name "final_video"
-
-    Returns:
-        str: Video title
-    """
-    title = os.getenv("VIDEO_TITLE") or "final_video"
-    if len(title) <= 35:
-        return title
-    else:
-        return title[0:30] + "..."