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Getting Started with the Reddit API in JavaScript

Gain insights into the Reddit API and endpoints. Learn about account setup, perform tasks, and integrate the API with a React app. Discover skills for developing Reddit integrations.

Beginner

16 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into the Reddit API and endpoints. Learn about account setup, perform tasks, and integrate the API with a React app. Discover skills for developing Reddit integrations.

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Course Overview

Reddit is a social media platform that allows users to create and manage communities around various topics. Users can also vote and comment on posts made by other users, which allows for better content to rise to the top. In this course, you’ll first get an introduction to the Reddit API and the different endpoints it offers. You will then receive a step-by-step guide on signing up for an account and retrieving the access keys. Next, you’ll be provided a hands-on guide on performing various tasks using t...Show More

What You'll Learn

Ability to create a subreddit, submit a post, and read posts and comments

Understanding of how to comment and vote on a post using the Reddit API

Familiarity with the JavaScript wrapper and snoowrap for the Reddit API

Understanding of how to manage subreddit wikis using snoowrap

The ability to create flairs using the JavaScript Reddit API Wrapper

Hands-on experience integrating the Reddit API in a functioning React application

Ability to create a subreddit, submit a post, and read posts and comments

Course Content

Introduction

3 Lessons

Get familiar with the Reddit API, its endpoints, and integrating snoowrap with JavaScript.

Introduction to the Course

Reddit API Overview

Get Started with the Reddit API

Interact with Subreddits

3 Lessons

Get started with interacting with subreddits by creating, commenting, voting, and reading posts.

Create a Subreddit and Submit a Post

Add Comments and Vote on a Post

Read Posts and Comments

JavaScript Reddit API Wrapper

2 Lessons

Go hands-on with the JavaScript library Snoowrap for interacting with Reddit's API.

Introduction to snoowrap

Use snoowrap to Interact with Posts and Comments

Use snoowrap to Moderate Reddit

3 Lessons

Break down the steps to moderate subreddit wikis, manage posts, and create flairs.

Create and Edit Subreddit Wikis

Manage Submissions for Posts

Create Flairs with snoowrap

Reddit API Integration in React

1 Lessons

Solve problems in Reddit API integration using React with a Node backend and custom hooks.

Demo Application

Conclusion

1 Lessons

Investigate how to use the Reddit API with React, and share your feedback.

Wrap Up!

Appendix

3 Lessons

Piece together the parts of refreshing tokens, snoowrap parameters, and Reddit API response fields.

Refresh Your Access Token

Parameters for Making a snoowrap Requester

Response fields for Reddit API

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