Fortunately, there’s always Google Apps Script to the rescue. While there exist quite a Node.js and Python libraries for scraping Reddit, they are too complicated to implement for the non-techie crowd. A post can be listed on the first page of a subreddit but it could be pushed to the third page the next second as other posts are voted to the top. You have tools like wget that can quickly download entire websites for offline use but they are mostly useless for scraping Reddit data since the site doesn’t use page numbers and content of pages is constantly changing. So, for instance, if your project requires you to scrape all mentions of your brand ever made on Reddit, the official API will be of little help. The only downside with the Reddit API is that it will not provide any historical data and your requests are capped to the 1000 most recent posts published on a subreddit. You can fetch posts, user comments, image thumbnails, votes and most other attributes that are attached to a post on Reddit. Reddit offers a fairly extensive API that any developer can use to easily pull data from subreddits. Learn how to scrape data from any subreddit on Reddit including comments, votes, submissions and save the data to Google Sheets
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