Reddit Analyzer

This repository contains a couple of scripts that will help you download Reddit data from public subreddits you are interested in using PushShift API.

The first step is to installing the dependencies, then configure scraper.py with the target subreddit and the year.

For installing dependencies :

# for installing dependencies
$ python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

For configuring scraper.py :

$ python scrapper.py -r subreddit_name -yr required_year

Note: The default value of the subreddit name is set to r/python and the year to the current year.

Note: You can download data from a larger time span if you wish. You will only need to manually adjust the epochs in the scrapper.py file.

After you have downloaded the data you will have a new CSV file ready to be analyzed.

The next step is to run plotter.py with the subreddit name and with the same year you passed in the scrapper.py (for the calendar plot).

using the command below :

$ python plotter.py -r subreddit_name -yr required_year

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All plots are fully documented, you can see them below.

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Example using data collected from r/python subreddit for the year 2021

commands used :

# for help on the scripts run
# $ python script_name.py --help

$ python scrapper.py -r Python -yr 2021
$ python plotter.py -r Python -yr 2021

Distribution by date

Distribution by hour

Distribution by month

Distribution by day of the week