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

Question

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

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 08 '19 at 05:54

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

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 05 '19 at 06:52

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

answered Jul 05 '19 at 06:52

justcool393

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

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