Around 260,000 threads / comments scraped from Reddit. Useful dataset for NLP projects.
Scraped using omega-red
The .csv
s are named <metareddit>_<subreddit>.csv
. The headers are described here and in headers.txt
.
Headers are:
text,id,subreddit,meta,time,author,ups,downs,authorlinkkarma,authorkarma,authorisgold
text
: Text of the comment / threadid
: Unique reddit id for the comment / threadsubreddit
: Subreddit that the comment / thread belongs tometa
: Metareddit that the comment / thread belongs to. Subreddits belong to metareddits. A subreddit can be leagueoflegends
. The metareddit for that subreddit would be gaming
, which can also include the subreddit dota2
time
: UNIX timestamp of the comment / threadauthor
: Username of the author of the comment / threadups
: Number of upvotes the comment / thread receiveddowns
: Number of downvotes the comment / thread receivedauthorlinkkarma
: The author's link karma. What is Link Karma?authorkarma
: The author's karma. Reddit FAQ explaining karma.authorisgold
: Boolean indicator for the gold status of the user. 1
for gold users, 0
for non-gold (normal) users. Reddit FAQ explaining gold status.If you prefer the texts with punctuation, they are included (as the original output files from omega-red) at https://mega.nz/#F!NtsCGTgD!urXdXLJ6yITYdWEdWN-H1w
are in /threads.csv
at https://mega.nz/#F!NtsCGTgD!urXdXLJ6yITYdWEdWN-H1w
Headers are:
'text', 'title', 'url', 'id', 'subreddit', 'meta', 'time', 'author', 'ups', 'downs', 'authorlinkkarma', 'authorcommentkarma', 'authorisgold'
text
: text of the threadtitle
: title of the threadurl
: url of the threadid
: unique ID of the threadsubreddit
: subreddit that the thread belongs tometa
: meta tag assigned to the subreddit of the thread in config.json
time
: timestamp of the threadauthor
: username of the author of the threadups
: number of ups the thread has receiveddowns
: number of downs the thread has receivedauthorlinkkarma
: the author's link karmaauthorcommentkarma
: the author's comment karmaauthorisgold
: 1
if the author has gold status, 0
otherwiseare in comments.csv
at https://mega.nz/#F!NtsCGTgD!urXdXLJ6yITYdWEdWN-H1w
Heades are (different from threads.csv
)
'text', 'id', 'subreddit', 'meta', 'time', 'author', 'ups', 'downs', 'authorlinkkarma', 'authorcommentkarma', 'authorisgold'
text
: text of the commentid
: unique ID of the commentsubreddit
: subreddit that the thread belongs tometa
: meta tag assigned to the subreddit of the thread in config.json
time
: timestamp of the threadauthor
: username of the author of the threadups
: number of ups the thread has receiveddowns
: number of downs the thread has receivedauthorlinkkarma
: the author's link karmaauthorcommentkarma
: the author's comment karmaauthorisgold
: 1
if the author has gold status, 0
otherwiseAll text is normalized to lower case, tokenized using a TreebankTokenizer from natural, then joined with spaces. This results in punctuation being separated from words, a desired effect.
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