reddit VS reddit_api

I have a whole bunch of open source projects that I'm using all the time, you can see them all here: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/graphs

reddit allows requests of up to 100 items at once. So if you request <= 100 items PRAW can serve your request in a single API call, but for larger requests PRAW will break it into multiple API calls of 100 items each separated by a small 2 second delay to follow the api guidelines.

Access to Reddit’s API requires a set of OAuth2 credentials. Those credentials are obtained by registering an application with Reddit. To register an application and receive a set of OAuth2 credentials please follow only the “First Steps” section of Reddit’s OAuth2 Quick Start Example wiki page.

To determine the timing of post publication, we leveraged a specific field found within each post that records the local time of the author, as documented by the JSON API of Reddit (see field “created” at https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/JSON).

Here's the code: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/scraper.py#L192

Authentication is done with OAuth2, and you can find information about that here.

https://github.com/praw-dev/praw/ - read the source and tests that includes recorded VCR-like HTTP interactions

wordcloud, apyori, a list of stopwords, TextBlob, PRAW for reddit(but I might change that to pushshift.io later)

All the while over these years, our API, which was ultimately built to be that thing that lets the website talk to the servers (and vice versa) became increasingly codified and relied upon for a rich ecosystem of third party scripts. And, I do mean “website” here. The roots of the most recent Reddit API date back to a time before Apps! The open nature of our APIs have allowed a rich ecosystem of 3rd party reddit apps to grow and flourish long before we got to building our own. It also means that, hough Automod solves many problems, community-specific moderation bots based in toolkits like PRAW could be build to solve many more problems. Even the usage of the word “bot” has different meanings on Reddit. Whereas on other platforms it is a shortcut to discussions of inauthenticity and manipulation, on Reddit it’s a descriptor of a large ecosystem of “good bots” built to provide such varied services as moderation support, summarization of text, and even metric to imperial unit conversions.

See: https://github.com/mellort/reddit_api/blob/master/reddit/objects.py#L359