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Swathi Swathis
Swathi Swathis

Reputation: 83

I want to scrape reddit data using praw. I am getting raise ResponseException(response) error after adding the for loop

subredditcmv=reddit.subreddit('changemyview')
cmv_subreddit=subredditcmv.top(limit=15)
cmv_dict={"Title":[], \
          "Score":[], \
          "id":[], \
          "number_of_comments":[],\
          "post":[],\
          "created":[]
          }
for posts in cmv_subreddit:
    cmv_dict["Title"].append(posts.title)
    cmv_dict["Score"].append(posts.score)
    cmv_dict["id"].append(posts.id)
    cmv_dict["number_of_comments"].append(posts.num_comments)
    cmv_dict["post"].append(posts.selftext)
    cmv_dict["created"].append(posts.created)

receiving this error

File "C:\Users\source\repos\lib\site-packages\prawcore\auth.py", line 31, in _post raise ResponseException(response)

ResponseException: received 401 HTTP response

Upvotes: 5

Views: 9968

Answers (2)

JackRed
JackRed

Reputation: 1204

The 401 error mean that your request lacks valid authentication credentials for the target resource. You need to authenticate yourself with the reddit api.
However, if you only want to fetch data, you can use the read-only mode or request the data to the reddit api yourself

Upvotes: 3

justcool393
justcool393

Reputation: 247

You are not authenticated with reddit's API (see the PRAW authentication page). Logging in first should fix this issue.

Upvotes: 1

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