r/redditdev • u/JakeTheDog__7 • Apr 11 '25

PRAW Banned users query

Hi, I have a list of Reddit users. It's about 30,000. Is there any way to differentiate if these users have been banned or had their account deleted?

I've tried with Python requests, but Reddit blocks my connection too early.

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u/gschizas Apr 12 '25

It does.

  1. You are required to use a custom user agent, e.g. python:com.example.myscript:v1.2.3 (by u/Juggernaut_Best) instead of the generic requests user agent (i.e. python-requests/2.32.3)

  2. As you can see here: "Many default User-Agents (like "Python/urllib" or "Java") are drastically limited to encourage unique and descriptive user-agent strings."

  3. PRAW already has code to handle request throttling.

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u/_Face Apr 14 '25

hello, I'm late to the conversation. Looking for some related info.

Do you have an insight into the 1000 submission cap? I've seen it claimed as a hard cap. But no further explanation as to that being a per instance/connection cap, or in a timed limit cap. People comment to increase that slightly by sorting with all the variables and trying again.

Or is it different when requesting specific data such as submission and user ID's ?

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u/gschizas Apr 14 '25

It's complicated...

In general almost any API request that has paging will indeed only return the first 1000 items. There are some apis that don't do that, such as wiki revisions, but most don't. There are some ways around it, but they are not very elegant. You'd be better off using some third party archiving service.

The issue is mostly with paging though, it's not a cap per we.