reddit-api-doc-notes VS PRAW

Building an API wrapper? Check out these notes I put together and used to helped me with this endeavour.

Endpoint information: https://github.com/Pyprohly/reddit-api-doc-notes/blob/main/docs/api-reference/comment_tree.rst.

I assure you I have not been naive when developing this library. I have spent years going through and documenting the API endpoints’ responses and I like to think I have a good grasp on where, when, and what attributes are returned and by what endpoints.

Another Redditor sent me this great resource for understanding all the data fields that are output by Reddit's API endpoints. It is currently incomplete, and includes some guesswork. Apparently there is no official documentation like this (please correct me if that's wrong).

Luckily, there's some great people out there that have done that work! Check out https://github.com/Pyprohly/reddit-api-doc-notes/tree/main/docs/api-reference. It's organized in mostly the same way the official docs are.

You'll want to use /r/{subreddit}/about (official API docs here, and over here for some unofficial docs on what is returned). The field on the object that is returned that you're looking for is user_is_subscriber.

If you are looking for some documentation on the draft API endpoints, see here. A draft is created using the POST /api/v1/draft endpoint.

The information I’ve given here can be found in the detailed documentation notes I’ve been working on.

Thanks for the premium. I can now document POST saved_categories.

I'm... not sure I understand the question? PRAW still works just fine for "personal use" of the reddit API.

Thank you for pointing out. So there is no need then for the access token? Only with the refresh token is enough? To be honest I took a look at it but I did not expect that to be under authentication as strictly speaking, the user already made the authentication. Also I took a look at the code at https://github.com/praw-dev/praw/blob/master/praw/reddit.py and I did not get a hint whether was possible to pass it or not. I am just saying this to let you know I tried to search for the answer before asking. Again thank you for the help.

To get the relevant IDs, you can use something like PRAW to query the subreddit for the top 1000 posts for example.

Huge thanks to the contributors to PRAW, which is the Python package that does all the heavy lifting relating to Reddit's API that I need for this script.

However, in practice duplicate items were yielded with these smaller numbers. So I increased the limit briefly to 250 in October 2016, and then increased it finally to 301 in December 2016 in order to resolve https://github.com/praw-dev/praw/issues/673. That issue provides an explanation for how 301 came to be.

Why? You gotta be ready for any status code. Even 777.