Interacting With REST APIs in Python With 5 Lines of Code
An essential skill for any web scraper or data scientist is to know how to collect information from a publicly available REST API. In short, a REST API is a very s...
Loading Data into Pandas: 5 Tips and Tricks You May or May Not Know
If you've ever worked with Pandas in Python before, you'll know that there are a bunch of different ways in which you can import tabulated data.
Pandas is perhaps one of the most widely used...
Will They Reply? Analysing the Reply Networks of 32 Programming Language Subreddits
Have you ever used Reddit for learning a programming language? There are many subreddit detected to specific programming languages. They are great for finding proj...
Creating Reply Networks from Reddit Comment Threads
In the previous blog post , we learned how to use PRAW to scrape and process data from Reddit. We fin...
How to Collect Data From Reddit - Introducing PRAW
If you're a nerd like me, you'll probably be very familiar with Reddit . Reddit describes itself as "the front page of the internet" which is certainly true for me...