This code is based on https://github.com/ianhussey/RedditCommentScraper

Scrape comments from a given thread on reddit.com using PRAW

Copyright (c) gyrusdentatus 2017 ([email protected])

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

1.0 (20/11/2017)

1. Scrapes all comments from a given reddit thread
2. Extracts top level comments
3. Saves to a csv file (??? writer)

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1. Although the script only uses publiclly available information, PRAW's call to the reddit API requires a reddit login (see line 44).
2. Reddit API limits number of calls (1 per second IIRC). For a large thread (e.g., 1000s of comments) script execution time may therefore be c.1 hour.
3. To configure, cp Scraper_config.py.example Scraper_config.py and edit that file. To extract more comment fields such as author and creation date, override the comment_to_list function in the config file.