PRAW
Official Python wrapper for the Reddit API to access and interact with Reddit data.
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How PRAW is used
PRAW is a dependency in 2 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 39 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is python-telegram-bot (34 projects). Projects that use it most often also use python-dotenv (82.1%), pandas (74.4%), Pydantic (69.2%).
PRAW popularity over time
Gid Score 44: downloads 53, use in agent projects 37, GitHub stars 36, downloads trend 48 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with PRAW
| python-dotenv | 82.1% of PRAW projects · 9.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| pandas | 74.4% of PRAW projects · 17.3× more than average |
| Pydantic | 69.2% of PRAW projects · 8.0× more than average |
| FastAPI | 66.7% of PRAW projects · 8.9× more than average |
| NumPy | 66.7% of PRAW projects · 11.4× more than average |
| Beautiful Soup | 64.1% of PRAW projects · 29.7× more than average |
| aiohttp | 59.0% of PRAW projects · 28.6× more than average |
| Hugging Face Hub | 59.0% of PRAW projects · 64.2× more than average |
From all 39 projects in our scan that use PRAW, including the dependency samples.
How PRAW is funded
Open Collective: PRAW
| Received, last 12 months | $45 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $50 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $183 |
| Raised since the start | $183 |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $0 · $0 over 24 months |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 1 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Aug 2021. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
Open Collective lists this collective for the praw-dev organization on GitHub, so the money is for all of its projects, not PRAW alone.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @praw-dev | 0 current sponsors |
|---|---|
| @bboe | 0 current sponsors |
| @LilSpazJoekp | 0 current sponsors |
GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work.
Ways to fund PRAW
GitHub Sponsors GitHub Sponsors GitHub Sponsors
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install praw |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (39) |
| Example projects | Paper2Poster/Paper2Poster, liyedanpdx/reddit-ai-trends, YuhangChen1/Paper2All, camel-ai/seta, AutoLab-SAI-SJTU/AutoPage |
Alternatives to PRAW
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside PRAW are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| python-telegram-bot pypi Python wrapper library for building Telegram bots with the Telegram Bot API. |
64 | 34 (2.1%) | 1.9M | 29.5K | LGPL-3.0-only |
| discord.py pypi Python wrapper for the Discord API to build bots and integrations. |
59 | 19 (1.2%) | 1.4M | 16.2K | MIT |
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