<form id="redditor_form">{% csrf_token %}
      Name: <input type="text" name="redditor_name" id="redditor_name">  <br />
            <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

<script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).on('submit','#redditor_form', function(e){
            e.preventDefault();
            console.log("form submitted!")  // sanity check

            $.ajax({
                type: 'POST',
                url: 'redditor/search/',
                data:{
                    redditor_name:$('#redditor_name').val(),
                    csrfmiddlewaretoken:$('input[name=csrfmiddlewaretoken]').val(),
                },
                success:function(){
                    alert("it works!");
                }
         });

            })
</script>

from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views

# Create your urls here.
urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
    url(r'^contact/$', views.contact, name='contact'),
    url(r'^redditor/search/$', views.redditor_search, name='redditor_name')  #mentioned in the script
]

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse

def redditor_search(request):
    if request.method== 'POST':
       redditor_name = request.POST['redditor_name']

       return HttpResponse('')

[webapp1]
client_id=
client_secret=
username=
password=
user_agent= ' '

#!/usr/bin/python
import praw

reddit = praw.Reddit('webapp1')

subreddit = reddit.subreddit("learnpython")

for submission in subreddit.hot(limit=5):
   print("Title: ", submission.title)
   print("Text: ", submission.selftext)
   print("Score: ", submission.score)
print("---------------------------------n")