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Retrieve Reddit posts, comments, upvotes, subreddit metadata, and user activity data via the PRAW Python library. Widely used for social media analytics pipelines, NLP training data collection, sentiment analysis, and building real-time data streams from online communities into data warehouses.
Python engineers use the `praw` (Python Reddit API Wrapper) library to authenticate with OAuth and iterate through subreddit posts, comments, and user histories. Data is typically streamed into Elasticsearch or stored as JSON for downstream NLP pipelines.
Reddit's long-form discussions are ideal for fine-tuning conversational LLMs and building domain-specific RAG knowledge bases. Subreddits like r/datascience or r/MachineLearning provide high-quality question-answer pairs for training AI assistants in technical domains.
# pip install praw
import praw
reddit = praw.Reddit(
client_id="YOUR_CLIENT_ID",
client_secret="YOUR_SECRET",
user_agent="my-data-app/1.0"
)
for post in reddit.subreddit("dataengineering").hot(limit=10):
print(post.title, post.score)Official dataset source
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