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Satarupa Guha
Satarupa Guha

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Can I obtain the most popular sub-reddits during a specified time frame using Reddit API PRAW?

Let's say I need to obtain the text (post and all comments) from the sub-reddits that were most popular during December 2014 and January 2015. How can that be done using PRAW? I was wondering, just like Twitter doesn't let us crawl tweets which are more than a week old, is there any such time constraint in place in case of Reddit?

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Max Candocia
Max Candocia

Reputation: 4385

PRAW has a limit of 1,000 for how far back you can get threads from a subreddit based on score, newness, "hotness" (I'm not sure if that one still works) or "controversy" (I haven't tried that one in a while, as well). Unfortunately, the most popular subreddits have had too many posts to look that far back.

You can try using search() http://praw.readthedocs.org/en/latest/pages/code_overview.html#praw.init.UnauthenticatedReddit.search to get the values you want, but it requires a bit more work.

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