Creating a Reddit App

Step 1: To extract data from Reddit, we need to create a Reddit app. You can create a new Reddit app(https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps).

Step 2: Click on “are you a developer? create an app…”.

Step 3: A form like this will show up on your screen. Enter the name and description of your choice. In the redirect uri box, enter http://localhost:8080

Step 4: After entering the details, click on “create app”.

The Reddit app has been created. Now, we can use python and praw to scrape data from Reddit. Note down the client_id, secret, and user_agent values. These values will be used to connect to Reddit using python.

In this article, we are going to see how to scrape Reddit using Python, here we will be using python’s PRAW (Python Reddit API Wrapper) module to scrape the data. Praw is an acronym Python Reddit API wrapper, it allows Reddit API through Python scripts.