To fully load the posts, we need to scroll the page down to the bottom continuously. We strongly suggest you turn on the 'Workflow Mode' to get a better picture of what you are doing with your task, just in case you mess up with the steps.įor some websites like, clicking the next page button to paginate is not an option for loading content.
In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to scrape posts from a Reddit group. The latest version for this tutorial is available here. In later posts of this series, we show you how to build more complex scrapers that need web crawlers. This scraper does not need a web crawling component as we are only extracting data from a single link.
Steps for web scraping Reddit Send a request to and download the HTML Content of the page. This is because, if you look at the link to the guide in the last sentence, the trick was to crawl from page to page on Reddit’s subdomains based on the page number.
Reddit has made scraping more difficult! Here’s why: Scraping anything and everything from Reddit used to be as simple as using Scrapy and a Python script to extract as much data as was allowed with a single IP address. You can see with some tinkering around that each post is encapsulated in a tag with a class name Post amongst a lot of other gibberish. Let's open the inspect tool to see what we are up against. Open Chrome and navigate to the node subreddit We are going to scrape all the posts. You should pass the following arguments to that function. First we connect to Reddit by calling the praw.Reddit function and storing it in a variable. PRAW stands for Python Reddit API Wrapper, so it makes it very easy for us to access Reddit data. 1) Go To Web Page - to open the targeted web page Click '+ Task' to start a task using Advanced Mode Advanced Mode is a highly flexible and powerful web scraping mode.