Reddit user aesptux posted to /r/learnprogramming requesting a code review of their script to download images from saved reddit links. This user made the same mistake I originally made and tried to work with the raw reddit JSON data. I hacked together a little script to show them how much more quickly they could accomplish their task using praw. It took almost no time at all, and the meat of the code is only about 20 lines. What a great API.
Here’s my code: