This is a very covenient code to scrape reddit comments
Scrape Reddit Data using R.
This is a pretty convenient script for scrapping Reddit comments.
Requirements:
you need to have two piece of information:
Requiremnet 1:Go to the page you want to Scrape let say: https://www.reddit.com/r/television/
so here televison is the subreddit.Collect all subreddits manualy.
Requirement 2:Decide what is the minimum length you want to assume before you scrape a comment
lets call it threshold_for_comment
R
How to use this?
All you need to do is modify the code at two places:
Locate following lines and just plugin the desired values i.e. Subreddits and value for threshold_for_comment
subreddits<-c("television","todayilearned","news","worldnews","movies","videos","sports","pics","AskReddit","music")
threshold_for_comment<-100
| Author | Working As | contact @ |
|---|---|---|
| Vinay Kumar | MS @ IIT-KGP | @github |
| Surjodoy Ghosh Dastider | M-Tech @ IIT-KGP | @github |
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