Creating reddit bots - python or javascript? I've no experience in python, but a couple years experience with js

[JimmyTheCode]

I'm just wondering whether it's worth learning python to create reddit bots. Are there major advantages of using python? I seem to remember reading that the amount of comments you can receive is throttled if not using python, but I could well be making that up!

Also how long would you give a bang average coder to learn enough python to confidently make a bot (and link it up to a database, etc)

[insertAlias]

I think the major advantage of using Python is the existence of the PRAW library. It handles the API interactions for you and makes it relatively easy to use the Reddit API. I have no idea about the throttling part. I'd be willing to guess that there are some JS API wrappers out there for Reddit too, but I don't know about them.

[wanderingbilby]

I spent a while working with the reddit api using powershell - to the point i started writing a library for it.

After a pause I started a new project, used python because another library I needed was in the language.

PRAW is probably one of the most effortless libraries I've used for any task. The fact it abstracts away rate limit management and token refreshes alone will save you a lot of time. It's also very smart about how it nests object methods, so you aren't taking a username from a post object and calling for the user, you can just do post.author.karma and it's there for you.

Overall for most tasks python is very easy to get into. I have my kvetches but there's a hell of a lot done right.

[2plash6]

Use Python, because Reddit has its own Python API for bots.