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How to scrape data from Reddit using Python!
Welcome back! Reddit is a massive platform with tons of different data points, so let’s go ahead and scrape some data from this platform!
First off
As always, if you have any suggestions, thoughts or just want to connect, feel free to contact / follow me on Twitter! Also, below is a link to some of my favorite resources for learning programming, Python, R, Data Science, etc.
Basic introduction you could probably skip that I copied from my other article
First things first, we will need to have Python installed, read my article here to make sure you have Python and some IDE installed. Next, I wrote an article on using Selenium in Python, Selenium is a web scraping package that allows us to mimic a web browser using Python, it might be best to read that article for more of an understanding on web scraping, but it’s not a necessity, you can read that article here.
