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**User-Agent Format**: `<platform>:<app_id>:<version> (by /u/<username>)`

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pip install praw

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import praw
from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings

class RedditSettings(BaseSettings):
    reddit_client_id: str
    reddit_client_secret: str
    reddit_user_agent: str
    reddit_username: str
    reddit_password: str

    class Config:
        env_file = ".env"

settings = RedditSettings()

reddit = praw.Reddit(
    client_id=settings.reddit_client_id,
    client_secret=settings.reddit_client_secret,
    user_agent=settings.reddit_user_agent,
    username=settings.reddit_username,
    password=settings.reddit_password,
)

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import praw

reddit = praw.Reddit(
    client_id="your_client_id",
    client_secret="your_client_secret",
    user_agent="YourApp/1.0 by YourUsername",
)

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npm install snoowrap

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import Snoowrap from "snoowrap";

const reddit = new Snoowrap({
  userAgent: "YourApp/1.0 by YourUsername",
  clientId: process.env.REDDIT_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  username: process.env.REDDIT_USERNAME!,
  password: process.env.REDDIT_PASSWORD!,
});

// Configure rate limiting
reddit.config({
  requestDelay: 1000,  // 1 second between requests
  continueAfterRatelimitError: true,
});

// Get hot posts from subreddit
const posts = await reddit.getSubreddit("typescript").getHot({ limit: 10 });
posts.forEach((post) => {
  console.log(`${post.title} - ${post.score} upvotes`);
});

// Search posts
const results = await reddit.getSubreddit("programming").search({
  query: "typescript",
  sort: "relevance",
  time: "month",
  limit: 10,
});

// Get specific post
const submission = await reddit.getSubmission("abc123").fetch();
console.log(submission.title);

// Get comments
const comments = await submission.comments.fetchAll();
comments.forEach((comment) => {
  console.log(`${comment.author.name}: ${comment.body.slice(0, 100)}`);
});

// Submit text post
const post = await reddit.getSubreddit("test").submitSelfpost({
  title: "Test Post",
  text: "This is the body.",
});

// Submit link
const linkPost = await reddit.getSubreddit("test").submitLink({
  title: "Check this out",
  url: "https://example.com",
});

// Vote and comment
await post.upvote();
await post.reply("Great post!");

import httpx
import base64
from pydantic import BaseModel

class RedditClient:
    def __init__(self, client_id: str, client_secret: str, user_agent: str):
        self.client_id = client_id
        self.client_secret = client_secret
        self.user_agent = user_agent
        self.access_token: str | None = None
        self.client = httpx.AsyncClient()

    async def authenticate(self) -> None:
        """Get application-only OAuth token."""
        auth = base64.b64encode(
            f"{self.client_id}:{self.client_secret}".encode()
        ).decode()

        response = await self.client.post(
            "https://www.reddit.com/api/v1/access_token",
            headers={
                "Authorization": f"Basic {auth}",
                "User-Agent": self.user_agent,
            },
            data={
                "grant_type": "client_credentials",
            },
        )
        response.raise_for_status()
        self.access_token = response.json()["access_token"]

    async def get_posts(self, subreddit: str, sort: str = "hot", limit: int = 10) -> list[dict]:
        """Get posts from a subreddit."""
        if not self.access_token:
            await self.authenticate()

        response = await self.client.get(
            f"https://oauth.reddit.com/r/{subreddit}/{sort}",
            headers={
                "Authorization": f"Bearer {self.access_token}",
                "User-Agent": self.user_agent,
            },
            params={"limit": limit},
        )
        response.raise_for_status()
        return [post["data"] for post in response.json()["data"]["children"]]

    async def close(self) -> None:
        await self.client.aclose()

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interface RedditPost {
  title: string;
  score: number;
  url: string;
  selftext: string;
  author: string;
  created_utc: number;
}

class RedditClient {
  private accessToken: string | null = null;

  constructor(
    private clientId: string,
    private clientSecret: string,
    private userAgent: string
  ) {}

  async authenticate(): Promise<void> {
    const auth = Buffer.from(`${this.clientId}:${this.clientSecret}`).toString("base64");

    const response = await fetch("https://www.reddit.com/api/v1/access_token", {
      method: "POST",
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Basic ${auth}`,
        "User-Agent": this.userAgent,
        "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
      },
      body: "grant_type=client_credentials",
    });

    const data = await response.json();
    this.accessToken = data.access_token;
  }

  async getPosts(subreddit: string, sort = "hot", limit = 10): Promise<RedditPost[]> {
    if (!this.accessToken) await this.authenticate();

    const response = await fetch(
      `https://oauth.reddit.com/r/${subreddit}/${sort}?limit=${limit}`,
      {
        headers: {
          Authorization: `Bearer ${this.accessToken}`,
          "User-Agent": this.userAgent,
        },
      }
    );

    const data = await response.json();
    return data.data.children.map((child: any) => child.data);
  }
}

from fastapi import FastAPI, Request
from fastapi.responses import RedirectResponse
import httpx
import secrets

app = FastAPI()
state_store: dict[str, bool] = {}

REDDIT_CLIENT_ID = "your_client_id"
REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET = "your_client_secret"
REDIRECT_URI = "http://localhost:8000/callback"

@app.get("/login")
async def login():
    state = secrets.token_urlsafe(16)
    state_store[state] = True

    auth_url = (
        f"https://www.reddit.com/api/v1/authorize"
        f"?client_id={REDDIT_CLIENT_ID}"
        f"&response_type=code"
        f"&state={state}"
        f"&redirect_uri={REDIRECT_URI}"
        f"&duration=permanent"
        f"&scope=identity read submit vote"
    )
    return RedirectResponse(auth_url)

@app.get("/callback")
async def callback(code: str, state: str):
    if state not in state_store:
        return {"error": "Invalid state"}
    del state_store[state]

    # Exchange code for token
    async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
        response = await client.post(
            "https://www.reddit.com/api/v1/access_token",
            auth=(REDDIT_CLIENT_ID, REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET),
            data={
                "grant_type": "authorization_code",
                "code": code,
                "redirect_uri": REDIRECT_URI,
            },
            headers={"User-Agent": "YourApp/1.0"},
        )

    tokens = response.json()
    # Store tokens securely, associate with user session
    return {"access_token": tokens["access_token"][:10] + "..."}

project/
├── src/
│   ├── reddit/
│   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   ├── client.py         # Reddit client wrapper
│   │   ├── models.py         # Pydantic models for posts/comments
│   │   └── scraper.py        # Data collection logic
│   └── main.py
├── .env
└── pyproject.toml

from pydantic import BaseModel
from datetime import datetime

class RedditPost(BaseModel):
    id: str
    title: str
    author: str
    subreddit: str
    score: int
    upvote_ratio: float
    url: str
    selftext: str
    created_utc: datetime
    num_comments: int
    is_self: bool

    @classmethod
    def from_praw(cls, submission) -> "RedditPost":
        return cls(
            id=submission.id,
            title=submission.title,
            author=str(submission.author),
            subreddit=submission.subreddit.display_name,
            score=submission.score,
            upvote_ratio=submission.upvote_ratio,
            url=submission.url,
            selftext=submission.selftext,
            created_utc=datetime.fromtimestamp(submission.created_utc),
            num_comments=submission.num_comments,
            is_self=submission.is_self,
        )

class RedditComment(BaseModel):
    id: str
    author: str
    body: str
    score: int
    created_utc: datetime
    parent_id: str
    is_submitter: bool

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