How-to Use The Reddit API in Python

Learn how to use the Reddit API in Python, including setup, authorization, and pulling data from subreddits. Reddit API docs: I originally wrote this as an article on Medium here: (I made it open so you don’t need a membership to read) Which goes something like this: “Reddit is a huge ecosystem brimming with data that is readily available at our very fingertips. As a data-minded person, I wanted to take advantage of this and perform some analysis using this vast repository of open-source data. Initially, it turned out that getting to grip with Reddit’s API wasn’t as clear-cut as expected — despite being a straightforward process; it can be a little confusing at first. So, after figuring everything out, I wrote this article — which I hope will help a few of you to get familiar with using the Reddit API in Python. We will cover: Getting Access Making Requests - Reading the Data - Streaming New