A Python package that can be used to download post and comment data from Reddit.

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Overview

Reddit Data Collector

Reddit Data Collector is a Python package that allows a user to collect post and comment data from Reddit. It is built on top of the Python module PRAW, which stands for "The Python Reddit API Wrapper". It aims to make it very simple for a user to collect data from Reddit for further analysis (e.g. Natural Language Processing), without having to learn the inner workings of PRAW or the Reddit API.

The main functionalities provided by the package currently include:

  1. Ability to collect a sample of post data and comment data from Reddit by simply providing the subreddit names that you wish to collect data from.

  2. Ability to convert that data into a pandas DataFrame in order to inspect it and save it for further use.

  3. Ability to seamlessly update an existing .csv file that contains some sample data collected with the package in the past, with some new sample data that is also collected with the package.

It is currently maintained by Nico Van den Hooff.

Installation

Dependencies

Reddit Data Collector requires Python and:

  • pandas (>=1.3.5)
  • praw (>=7.5.0)
  • tqdm (>=4.62.3)

User installation

The recommended way to install Reddit Data Collector is using pip:

pip install reddit-data-collector

How to Use Reddit Data Collector

Please see the examples directory for step by step instructions on how to use Reddit Data Collector.

Development

Important links

Source code

You can check the latest sources with the command:

git clone https://github.com/nicovandenhooff/reddit-data-collector.git

Contributing

To learn more about making a contribution to Reddit Data Collector, please see the contributing file.

Potential Ideas for Contribution

  • Add ability to collect images from Reddit posts that contain them.
  • Add author information to post and comment data, currently the Reddit API is inconsistent with suspended and deleted author data, so this functionality has not been built in yet.

Testing

After installation, you can launch the test suite, which is contained in the tests/tests.py. Note that you will have to have pytest >= 6.2.5 installed. You can launch the test suite by following these steps from the projects root directory:

  1. Open up tests.py with the following command:
open tests/tests.py

Comment out lines 24 to 30. Change the values in DataCollector() in line 32 to your Reddit credentials.

  1. Run the following command:
pytest tests/test.py

Project History

The project was started in January 2022 by Nico Van den Hooff as a side project while he was completing the UBC Master of Data Science Project. Nico wanted to obtain a sample of posts and comments from Reddit, but noticed that while PRAW existed and provided seamless access to Reddit's API, there was no package available that allowed for a simple method to collect this data.

Inspiration

Certain sections of this README file was inspired by the scikit-learn README.

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Releases(v1.1.0)

  • v1.1.0(Mar 14, 2022)

    [1.1.0] - 2022-03-13

    Changed

    • Changed get_data in reddit_data_collector.py to return pandas DataFrame by default
    • Updated tests for the above
    Source code(tar.gz)
    Source code(zip)

  • v1.0.2(Jan 15, 2022)

    [1.0.2] - 2022-01-14

    Fixed

    • Updated _check_subreddit_exists in reddit_data_collector.py to check both names as .lower()
    • Updated tests for the above

    Changed

    • Updated README to include instructions on coverage tests
    Source code(tar.gz)
    Source code(zip)

  • v1.0.1(Jan 12, 2022)

    [1.0.1] - 2022-01-12

    Fixed

    • Spelling error of separate argument in to_pandas function of reddit_data_collector.io.py, previously it was spelt like seperate

    Changed

    • Update example use and move to /examples
    • Update PyPi link in docs to working link
    • Add new potential ideas for contribution
    Source code(tar.gz)
    Source code(zip)

  • v1.0.0(Jan 7, 2022)

Owner
Nico Van den Hooff
UBC Master of Data Science
Nico Van den Hooff
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