Reddit Comments Analyzer

General package for reddit comments analysis, data manipulation, and other areas

Install Instructions

pip install .

or for released version:

pip install reddit-extract

How to Use

Required:

• Reddit Client ID
• Reddit Client Secret
• Reddit User Agent
• Subreddit
• List of Thread IDs for bulk extract of multiple Reddit threads
• Dictionary (Should match your regex search pattern, otherwise your headers will not match the data retrieved, for example: a defined copy/paste form for a reddit thread that users reply to, aka "Megathreads")
• Regex Pattern (for csv)

Extracting all comments for list of threads to csv with defined headers and search pattern:

import reddit_extract
reddit_extract.extract_comments_csv_bulk(<Reddit ClientID>, <Reddit ClientSecret>, <Reddit User Agent>, <Subreddit>, <Thread IDs>, <Dictionary Headers>)

Extracting all comments for list of threads to txt:

import reddit_extract
reddit_extract.extract_comments_txt_bulk(<Reddit ClientID>, <Reddit ClientSecret>, <Reddit User Agent>, <Subreddit>, <Thread IDs>)

Example:

import reddit_extract
threads = ['aw79c5', 'b7x7n1', 'am5uk7', 'bji681', 'abv2gl', '9klf8e']
search_pattern = r'Form: (.*)\n*Entity: (.*)\n*Pending: (.*)\n*Approved: (.*)\n*Standardized wait: (.*)\n*STATE: (.*)'
headers = {'Form': 'Form', 'Entity': 'Entity', 'Pending': 'Pending', 'Approved': 'Approved', 'Standardized Wait': 'Standardized Wait', 'STATE': 'STATE'}
reddit_extract.extract_comments_csv_bulk(<client_id>, <client_secret>, <user_agent>, 'nfa', threads, headers, search_pattern)

Tests

python setup.py test