Just save this as karma.py and run it with Python 3.6 or higher.

import requests
import math

INSTANCE_URL = "https://feddit.de"
TARGET_USER = "ENTER_YOUR_USERNAME_HERE"

LIMIT_PER_PAGE = 50

res = requests.get(f"{INSTANCE_URL}/api/v3/user?username={TARGET_USER}&limit={LIMIT_PER_PAGE}").json()

totalPostScore = 0
totalCommentScore = 0
page = 1
while len(res["posts"])+len(res["comments"]) > 0:
	totalPostScore += sum([ x["counts"]["score"] for x in res["posts"] ])
	totalCommentScore += sum([ x["counts"]["score"] for x in res["comments"] ])
	
	page += 1
	res = requests.get(f"{INSTANCE_URL}/api/v3/user?username={TARGET_USER}&limit={LIMIT_PER_PAGE}&page={page}").json()

print("Post karma:    ", totalPostScore)
print("Comment karma: ", totalCommentScore)
print("Total karma:   ", totalPostScore+totalCommentScore)
  • Square Singer@feddit.deOP
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    1 year ago

    I get the reasoning, I’ve read the discussions. Still I like the karma thing, not for showing it to other people, but to give me an overview over what I’ve been doing so far. It’s kinda an activity meter for me, and a bit of feedback on how my posts are doing.

    I am on Stackoverflow, and obviously I was on Reddit. While I was there, I never actually looked at other people’s karma, but my karma motivated me to be more engaged.

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      1 year ago

      I can see the appeal… I just don’t like it myself. It’s so easy for it to become a measuring stick or something you actually try to boost.

      For me the number of posts and comments on the profile is good enough :)