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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+"""Module for task 3"""
+
+
+def count_words(subreddit, word_list, word_count={}, after=None):
+    """Queries the Reddit API and returns the count of words in
+    word_list in the titles of all the hot posts
+    of the subreddit"""
+    import requests
+
+    sub_info = requests.get("https://www.reddit.com/r/%7B%7D/hot.json"
+                            .format(subreddit),
+                            params={"after": after},
+                            headers={"User-Agent": "My-User-Agent"},
+                            allow_redirects=False)
+    if sub_info.status_code != 200:
+        return None
+
+    info = sub_info.json()
+
+    hot_l = [child.get("data").get("title")
+             for child in info
+             .get("data")
+             .get("children")]
+    if not hot_l:
+        return None
+
+    word_list = list(dict.fromkeys(word_list))
+
+    if word_count == {}:
+        word_count = {word: 0 for word in word_list}
+
+    for title in hot_l:
+        split_words = title.split(' ')
+        for word in word_list:
+            for s_word in split_words:
+                if s_word.lower() == word.lower():
+                    word_count[word] += 1
+
+    if not info.get("data").get("after"):
+        sorted_counts = sorted(word_count.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[0])
+        sorted_counts = sorted(word_count.items(),
+                               key=lambda kv: kv[1], reverse=True)
+        [print('{}: {}'.format(k, v)) for k, v in sorted_counts if v != 0]
+    else:
+        return count_words(subreddit, word_list, word_count,
+                           info.get("data").get("after"))