A858 Archive Bot in Python, thesoundofbutthurt 11/5/2012.

import praw

def write_plain(file_name, selftext):
    f = open(file_name+'_plain.txt', 'w')
    f.write(selftext + "\n")
    f.close()

def write_fancy_old(file_name, data):
    f = open(file_name+'_fancy.txt', 'w')
    for i in data:
        f.write(str(i) + "\n")

def write_fancy(title, data):
    f = open(title+'.xml', 'w')
    f.write("<data title=" + title)
    for i in data:
        f.write("<item>\n")
        f.write("\t" + str(i) + "\n")
        f.write("</item>\n")
        f.write("</data>")

username = 'A858_archive'   # Or whatever
password = 'PASSWORD_HERE'

bot = praw.Reddit(user_agent='USER_AGENT')
print "Starting A858 Archive Bot"
print "Logging in..."
bot.login(username, password)
print "Logged in."
subreddit = bot.get_subreddit('A858DE45F56D9BC9')
print "Checking previous entries..."
done = open('done.txt', 'r+')
old = done.read().split()
done.close()
count = 0
print "Starting, looking for new A858DE45F56D9BC9 posts..."
for sub in subreddit.get_hot(limit=10):
    done = open('done.txt', 'a')
    if sub.id not in old:
        done.write(sub.id + " ")
        count += 1
        title = sub.title
        print "Post number: %d with title: %s" % (count, title)
        sub.save()
        sub.upvote()
        write_plain(title, sub.selftext)
        write_fancy(title, [title, sub.created_utc, sub.short_link, sub.selftext])
    done.close()
print count, " new posts since last run."