Introduction and Basics - Python Reddit API Wrapper (PRAW) tutorial p.1

what is going on everybody and welcome to a Python reddit API wrapper or pro tutorial series if you don't know what reddit is ready to just a place with well welcome to the Internet so anyway reddit comm is like it's almost like a forum for just pretty much any contextual information so there are basically just a bunch of sub reddits that comprise reddit and then a subreddit is basically the contextual part where you've got sub reddits for like Python programming news politics technology up just and pretty much everything you can think of and if you can't think of it you can make your own subreddit for it so anyways that's right calm if you don't have an account go ahead and sign up just fill out the form and all that I already have an account for this tutorial so I'm going to go ahead and log in it is pron tutorial password is cookies don't hack Network so now we're going to go to preferences once you've created an account go to apps and then go ahead and create an app and this app needs to be a script and then we can give it a name I'm just going to call it fraud tutorial it's tough toriel and we're going to say in the description tutorial on lip for all brawl brawl thank you and then for this will just do Python program you got Annette cool okay so now we'll go ahead and create an app and then here is your client ID and then this is your secret I'm going to move this over for now but will be that's useful information that we're going to need momentarily so what we're going to be using is prompts so this these are the documents for pry you should just it's a pip install process of rot and these are the documents but if you if you just search for like pron google you'll probably get documentation for 3.6 what you actually want to get is just the the latest documentation so if you do go through the documentation just make sure it's the latest one because lots of things changed so anyways moving this aside in fact I think I might even just close this I think I'm all done it what I'm going to do now is open up here broad tutorial make sure it fits on my page and we're just going to like doing a really quick example of clearing some information so make sure it's fits cool so first thing we're going to go ahead and do is we need to import pro and then once we've imported probably got to like setup it like a reddit instance basically so I'm going to say reddit equals prof. dots reddit for reddit instance and then you're going to need client ID client secret and we should price it because we're going to fill these in in just a moment and then you need a username password and a user agent I'm not sure why you have to have a user agent but you do I think [Music] so client ID is what I just showed you guys a moment ago so this is my client ID right here this this boom secret right here username is prostitute Oreo prom tutorial password was cookies a user agent I mean you can put anything in here so I'm not really sure pretty sure at one point like I've used just the straight reddit API before and you actually had to have just anything in user agent but not sure what's required anyway there you go so now we've got our little reddit instance and we are ready to do stuff with it so for example like I was saying before red is comprised of a bunch of subreddit so let's go ahead and specify a subreddit so I'm going to say subreddit equals reddit dot write it and a subreddit we're going to choose is Python now let's say we want to because like I've shown you guys before like if we go to Reddit calm Erica Python right here you can see like you can sort of things in different ways like hot is a combination basically of votes to time new is just purely time what's the newest first kind of a forum or something like that rising is just stuff that is rising quite quickly controversial is just anything that has a combination of lots of up votes and down votes top is I think just just votes and plastic time much they're not positive with the difference between hot and top is someone wants to post below what the difference between hot and top is one being known definitely ordered by votes for sure I maybe it just favors both slightly more but as you can see you don't really see too many more may be tough oh this is pop from the last 24 hours okay so then we could say top from the past year for example yeah I think these are just like top posts from everyone in the last year cool so who is this cool guy anyway uh so you can do like any of these that you wanted now actually I'm not positive how to do this you can probably check the documents though for how to do this next like links from XYZ anyways we're going to look for just hot so we're going to say hot Python equals sub reddit dot hot and then what we're going to do is we're going to just kind of go through these so for example we could say like like dot Hut I forget what the default is I don't know if like 30 or 200 or I don't know what the default number is but you can also pass in the limit here so you can say limit equals 1 so that will just return the the hottest Python information at the moment so what we can do now is iterate through whatever the return is so this is 1 but we could say I don't know 5 so 4 for submission in hot Python we can just let's print that submission and see what we what we're working with at the time okay so here are these submissions so these are basically your IDs so this is a thread ID for whatever these topics are we don't really know too much more about them now I happen to know it's an object you might not know it's an object it could just be an ID so I mean with with any module if you like if you don't really like reading Docs you can just do derp and that will give you all the attributes so for example this is going to put out a lot of dirt but anyway let's just go up to the top so this is like one of the dirt should have just done one but anyways here you can clearly see ok here seems like these are a bunch of done ders up here but as you come down here and we can see right away like ok approved when or whatever and a lot of this stuff is like you know cake when was created created et Cie delete which it would have be years definite rights to delete it but you can get try to find something useful here that's typical like you can reply to it you can check how many votes as you can upvote it although don't do that as but you can grab the title anyway I'm not going to focus too much on that but anyways if you want to like you can just kind of go through all the things but so for example let's just grab the title so print rather than their submission and rather than submission which is just the ID but it's actually an object we can reference dot title so the ad like just with anything in Python the attribute title should be populated now pretty much everything you see in improv that has you know basically it's a function call you can pretty much guess that's going to be yet another API called it so that data might not exist just yet let's go ahead and run that again and there you go so you've got the first five so this one's the official job board what's everyone working on this week and if we go here let's go to high we'll see that these are not actually like these are um these are stickies so we might not actually want those right we might not be interested in that information so one of those things was one of the attributes rather is sticky so it's just a boolean value so for example we could take if not Submission dot sticky sticky print submission dot title so now we should just get the non sticky ones so there you go so I guess he's just kind of live it should just be three I think it's just because of wrapping yeah so anyways even though we went through five we still we only post the title to three of them because those first two were just stickies so um so now we can get all kinds of other information on them so like rather than just submission title we could we could get all kinds of stuff like for example we could say you know title and food oops not semicolons curly braces downs which honestly downs doesn't seem to work we'll see that soon enough but have we visited visited curly brace now dot format and then just same as before submission title submission dot UPS submission dot downs submission dot visited cool so we'll run that again okay so for example title guide on how to create a Twitter bot with Python so it's a little bit off screen but yeah anyway this has visited false well let's see what happens if we click on it here I can't remember if you view the comments or not surely it would still it would say you visited but let's find out just as false maybe I got to actually click the link I don't click on it let's try again let's try again the other thing I wanted to point out was the ups and downs they're kind of funky okay so since we haven't visited I sort of tested that in the past and it was fine maybe you have to visit it via the API I don't know anyway um literally everything has down to zero unless it's in the negatives so maybe the pro hasn't like updated to like a new change in the subreddit API I really don't know anyways on any submission you can get all kinds of information you can do all kinds of stuff so just add some examples you know here we just grabbed a bunch of information but you can also you can do all kinds of things you can take action so you can do like vote right you can do dot down vote although as a bot again you wouldn't do that the only times you should really use these commands or like if you make some sort of reddit like a phone app or something like that and it's like a human that decides to do it so that's doing this would be like against the Terms of Service basically you can reply there's nothing in the docs that says a robot can't apply reply sorry and then you can also subscribe and unsubscribe so at least some things that we could do we could make a reply I just don't really know what to reply but we can also subscribe so for example we could say subreddit dot subscribe and that should subscribe us to the Python subreddit let's go ahead and run that real quick so suppose we have visited your trading but let's see if we subscribed at least so initially we're not subscribed to the Python subreddit we are subscribed we could I think we should get away this subreddit dot unsubscribe and now if we were to refresh this page we need to subscribe I swear I'm enjoying all my coffee this morning so subscribed one more time I'm pretty sure it said unsubscribe but the button I don't think changed color that's what's tripping me up right now usually it's like red or green yeah okay now we have an unsubscribe I have to go back and look and see if it said anyway we have subscribed did I do just a dot no I actually ran it so I don't know should have subscribed but that's weird cuz it was like it never changed color released I don't think so I might be losing my mind but anyway okay so that's like a quick kind of introduction to the Python reddit API from here you could just read documents or use dirt and attributes and maybe figure a bunch of stuff out on your own otherwise in the next tutorial we're going to be kind of going through and really honing in on actually navigating like the comments because navigating the comments is significantly more challenging than navigating the gist submissions right the submissions are always ordered very nicely whereas comments are like entry form it's kind of a recursion problem and it can just kind of be a little more challenging so anyways that's we're gonna be doing a next tutorial if you get questions comments concerns whatever feel free to even below otherwise I'll see you in the next door

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Keywords: Python, tutorial, Reddit, PRAW, Python Reddit API Wrapper, programming, API

Id: NRgfgtzIhBQ

Length: 14min 21sec (861 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 07 2017