No-Code Reddit API Data Scraping (Still Works in 2025)

2024 Update - The API still works, however the approval process is more strict and this video will only be helpful if you have access to the official API.

Reddit has been growing like wildfire lately, and its data can be very valuable for harvesting information on public interest and what is causing controversy online. We'll show you how to use the Reddit API directly (instead of through a coding library like PRAW), including how to authenticate using an application token (without user context) and get your bearer token. Then we'll walk through a simple examples on how to fetch popular subreddits, the posts within each subreddit and comments for particular subreddit posts. #reddit #data #scraping

0:00 Why Reddit's Data is so Valuable
0:22 The Official Reddit API can be Overwhelming for Scraping Data
0:52 Why Accessing the Reddit API Directly can be a Good Idea
1:37 Using PRAW to Scrape Public Data from Reddit
2:15 Creating a Reddit API App to Get Client ID and Secret
2:37 Getting Bearer Access Token for Your Reddit Application
4:06 Using Reddit's API Bearer Token for Accessing Endpoints
4:58 Finding Interesting Endpoints for Scraping Reddit Data
5:21 Stevesie Data Reddit Integration for Scraping
5:41 Scraping Popular Subreddits
6:18 Scraping Subreddit Posts
7:17 Scraping Subreddit Post Comments
8:03 Thoughts & Conclusions

[Buttskie]

PRAW and the Reddit API only go back 1000 items (depending on user or subreddit) for more data you should utilize the pushshift API

[abhijeetbhalerao]

Can it notify by email when someone post a particular keyword on reddit??please answer

[TheAMOTVBrunei]

Hi! Can I download the entire data from a Subreddit through your website? Will it be in csv file?

[reapercreeper]

Thanks, I was making a discord bot and wanted to make a command to get reddit Memes, this helps

[nastaran]

Hi. I have a problem, I got this error first ""error": "unsupported_grant_type""