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Last month, Storybench editor Aleszu Bajak and I decided to explore user data on nootropics, the brain-boosting pills that have become popular for their productivity-enhancing properties. Many of the substances are also banned by at the Olympics, which is why we were able to pitch and publish the piece at Smithsonian magazine during the 2018 Winter Olympics. For the story and visualization, we decided to scrape Reddit to better understand the chatter surrounding drugs like modafinil, noopept and piracetam.
In this Python tutorial, I will walk you through how to access Reddit API to download data for your own project.
Read more here.