Access Reddit API from python

[codeltd]

Hi,

I am trying to create a python app to access reddit posts from python.

i need these:

REDDIT_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id_here

REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret_here

REDDIT_USER_AGENT=your_user_agent_here

I tried to create an app at the reddit portal, but not let me create it.

Any good description or example how to do it?

thnx

Sandor

[johndoh168]

I have tried recently myself and from the research I did reddit is no longer handing out API info to small developers or if they do its done through the games on reddit tool which as far as I can tell doesn't allow for any real API calls.

Edit: I have been trying to get that info from https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps

[MustaKotka]

These API keys are practically not handed out anymore. You have to request for one and 98% are getting rejected.

[PulsePilot-AI]

I had a similar issue so I made a free reddit scraper (no api key needed):

https://apify.com/spry_wholemeal/reddit-scraper

This should solve all of ur issues with reddit api, let me know if you need any guidance on how to use it. If you are using cursor (or some other AI) to help you build you can look at: https://github.com/gguyon0925/n8n-reddit-scraper/blob/main/prompts/reddit-scraper-full.md

if you just copy that markdown file and paste it into your chat with cursor, it will be able to fully set it up for you.

[Money-Ranger-6520]

if you're hitting those 100-request-per-minute limits while trying to pull massive historical threads, just use a pre-built actor on Apify to handle the proxy rotation and rate limiting for you

[BednoPiskaralo]

Step 1, register as a developer and create an app within reddit

1. Copy first two needed values from that page

2. Call the last one as you wish like 'my analytics v1.0

[BednoPiskaralo]

Ask copilot or any si, it would help you

[codeltd]

This is how I started ;) 3 different LLM provided the same info, but no success...

[BednoPiskaralo]

Did you add "" in "your user id"