Welp…. on April 2023 this API policy change happned to Reddit. While I did do reddit scraping prior to this(like 1~2 years ago) for funsies and jokes, this still was a bummer.
I primarily used PSAW that is a wrapper for Pushshift.io since it was very easy to use. However, due to the changes, Pushshift.io now only makes it available for reddit mods for big subreddits. So since that’s a gonner the only choice for me is to use the ol’ PRAW again. It has some inherent limitations but thankfully it’s still free if used under the right terms and rate limits(100 requests per min).
But the problem is that there are almost no (that I could find of on google) easy guides on how to use the newest (PRAW 7.7.1 as of writing) PRAW. I mean the docs are good enough and understandable. But Attention deprived people like me or who just wants to get it done quick don’t want to read the docs lol.
So yeah, this is my journey to scraping Reddit using PRAW 7.7.1~! (in progress….) Realized that PRAW can’t do shit. (It could do proper stuffs before but recent updates ruined it 😒) So I’m looking for alternatives!
(btw ONLY scraping comments and submissions. so no moderations or some other stuffs)