redditScrape.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import lxml.etree as ET
import os
import requests

rssRedditURL = "https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftRewards/search.rss?sort=new&restrict_sr=on&q=flair%3AMail%2BPoints"

headers = {
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.120 Safari/537.36"
}

xmlData = requests.get(rssRedditURL, headers=headers).text

xmlThing = open("tempFileDelete.txt", "wb")
xmlThing.write(xmlData.encode())
xmlThing.close()

tree = ET.parse("tempFileDelete.txt")
root = tree.getroot()

os.remove("tempFileDelete.txt")
linkList = []

for content in root.findall(
    "{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry/{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}content"
):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(content.text, "lxml")
    for link in soup.findAll("a"):
        if "aka.ms" in link.get("href") or "e.microsoft" in link.get("href"):
            linkList.append(link.get("href"))

with open("email_links.txt", "w") as filehandle:
    for listitem in linkList:
        filehandle.write("%s\n" % listitem)