# praw-dev/praw

PRAW, an acronym for "Python Reddit API Wrapper", is a python package that allows for simple access to Reddit's API.

Repository: https://github.com/praw-dev/praw
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/praw
Homepage: https://praw.readthedocs.io
Language: Python
License: BSD-2-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: python, reddit, api, oauth, praw, reddit-api
Last push: 2026-08-24T15:33:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 97, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5858, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 21, "gap_med": 7.0, "n_releases_24m": 7}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4234, forks 500 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:39.475471+00:00)

## What it is
PRAW is a Python package that wraps Reddit's API, providing simple, rule-compliant access to Reddit data and actions. It handles OAuth authentication and rate limiting so users don't need manual sleep calls.

## Use cases
- scrape posts and comments from a subreddit
- build a reddit bot that replies to mentions
- download all posts from a user's history
- monitor new submissions in a subreddit in real time
- analyze reddit comment sentiment
- automatically moderate subreddit content
- fetch reddit data for research datasets

## When to choose
- you want to interact with Reddit's API from Python
- you need OAuth handling and API rule compliance out of the box
- you're building bots, scrapers, or analytics on Reddit data

## When to avoid
- you need a non-Python language
- you want a general-purpose HTTP client for arbitrary APIs
- Reddit's API access restrictions or pricing make your use case infeasible

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: http-client, auth, web-scraping
- domain: apis, social-media, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: reddit-api, oauth, api-wrapper, social-media-api, automation

## Member repositories
- praw-dev/praw (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:39.475471+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:22:19.164431+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/praw-dev/praw (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:39.475471+00:00, sha 760e5e2ed1d3)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/praw/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:12:42.854132+00:00, sha 5bd4075ce0d5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.