It works like a charm now :)

Merged two projects and allowed them to use common functions for 
inter-operativity.

bot/api/reddit.py

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+import praw
+try:
+    import api.keys as keys
+except:
+    import keys
+
+stream = praw.Reddit(client_id = keys.reddit_id, client_secret = keys.reddit_secret, user_agent=keys.reddit_user_agent)
+
+def get_top(subreddit, number, return_type="text"):
+    if return_type == "text":
+        message = ""
+        try:
+            for submission in stream.subreddit(subreddit).top(limit=number):
+                if not submission.stickied:
+                    message += "<b>" + submission.title + "</b>" + "\n" + submission.selftext + "\n\n\n"
+            return message
+        except:
+            return "Api call failed, sorry"
+    else:
+        images = []
+        try:
+            for submission in stream.subreddit(subreddit).top(limit=number):
+                if not submission.stickied:
+                    t = {"image": submission.url, "caption": submission.title}
+                    images.append(t)
+            return images
+        except:
+            return ["Api call failed, sorry"]
+
+
+def get_random_rising(subreddit, number, return_type="text"):
+    if return_type == "text":
+        message = ""
+        try:
+            for submission in stream.subreddit(subreddit).random_rising(limit=number):
+                if not submission.stickied:
+                    message += "<b>" + submission.title + "</b>" + "\n" + submission.selftext + "\n\n\n"
+            return message
+        except:
+            return "Api call failed, sorry"
+    else:
+        images = []
+        try:
+            for submission in stream.subreddit(subreddit).random_rising(limit=number):
+                if not submission.stickied:
+                    t = {"image": submission.url, "caption": submission.title}
+                    images.append(t)
+            return images
+        except:
+            return ["Api call failed, sorry"]