Our dataset is going to consist of posts from the Hot list of the /r/worldnews subreddit. We saw in the previous section how to connect to reddit and how to download links. To put it all together, we will create a function that will extract the titles, links, and score for each item in a given subreddit.
We will iterate through the subreddit, getting a maximum of 100 stories at a time. We can also do pagination to get more results. We can read a large number of pages before reddit will stop us, but we will limit it to 5 pages.
As our code will be making repeated calls to an API, it is important to remember to rate-limit our calls. To do so, we will need the sleep function:
from time import sleep
Our function will accept ...
