• Basic Python Programming Skills
• Basic Reddit Knowledge : Reddit is a network of communities based on people’s interests. Each of these communities is called a subreddit. Users can subscribe to multiple subreddits to post, comment and interact with them.
• A Reddit Account

To install PRAW, we run the following pip script on the terminal / command prompt.

pip install praw

After installing PRAW, we need to import it:

After importing PRAW, we need to instantiate it. There are 2 types of PRAW instances:

• Read-only Instance: With read-only instance we can only retrieve public information from Reddit. Information like top 10 posts from a certain subreddit. We can’t post material from this.
• Authorized Instance: With authorised instance we can do whatever a normal reddit account can do. Actions like comment, post, repost, upvote etc. can be performed.

Creating a read-only instance:

Output:

True

Creating an authorized instance:

Output:

False

To switch back to read-only mode:

Now let us see some of the operations we can acheive using PRAW:

• Access a Subreddit: In reddit there are multiple communities known as subreddits. We can obtain a subreddit instance using the method subreddit.
  
  

  
  
  

  subreddit = reddit.subreddit('GRE')    # display the subreddit name print(subreddit.display_name)    # display the subreddit title  print(subreddit.title)           # display the subreddit description  print(subreddit.description)

  Output :

  GRE
  GRE
  #/r/GRE  
  
  This subreddit is for discussion of the GRE (Graduate Record Examination). If you're studying for the GRE, or can help people who are studying for the GRE, you're in the right place!
  
    
  
  -----
  
  #Rules
  
  - You must read and follow the rules! 
  https://www.reddit.com/r/gre/about/rules
  
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• Access a Submission: Within a subreddit there are multiple post submissions. We can iterate through the submissions in the submission instance. Reddit provides us multiple ways to sort submissions:
  • rising
  • new
  • hot
  • gilded
  • controversial
  • top

  These methods will return a ListingGenerator, therefore we will need to iterate through it.

  
  

  
  
  

  # to find the top most submission in the subreddit "GRE" subreddit = reddit.subreddit('GRE')    for submission in subreddit.top(limit = 1):     # displays the submission title     print(submission.title)          # displays the net upvotes of the submission     print(submission.score)          # displays the submission's ID     print(submission.id)           # displays the url of the submission     print(submission.url)

  Output:

  me irl
  483
  de58vq
  https://i.redd.it/0mqck4323yq31.png

• Access a Redditor: In Reddit, the user is called a Redditor. We can obtain the redditor instance using the method redditor. In the method we pass the username of the redditor.
  
  

  
  
  

  # let the redditor be "AutoModerator" redditor = reddit.redditor('AutoModerator')    # display AutoModerator's karma print(redditor.link_karma)

  Output:

  6554

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