Reddit Comment and Thread Datas

Around 260,000 threads / comments scraped from Reddit. Useful dataset for NLP projects.

Quick Start

Scraped using omega-red

The .csvs 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 / thread
• id: Unique reddit id for the comment / thread
• subreddit: Subreddit that the comment / thread belongs to
• meta: 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 / thread
• author: Username of the author of the comment / thread
• ups: Number of upvotes the comment / thread received
• downs: Number of downvotes the comment / thread received
• authorlinkkarma: 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.

Original Texts

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

Threads

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 thread
• title: title of the thread
• url: url of the thread
• id: unique ID of the thread
• subreddit: subreddit that the thread belongs to
• meta: meta tag assigned to the subreddit of the thread in config.json
• time: timestamp of the thread
• author: username of the author of the thread
• ups: number of ups the thread has received
• downs: number of downs the thread has received
• authorlinkkarma: the author's link karma
• authorcommentkarma: the author's comment karma
• authorisgold: 1 if the author has gold status, 0 otherwise

Comments

are 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 comment
• id: unique ID of the comment
• subreddit: subreddit that the thread belongs to
• meta: meta tag assigned to the subreddit of the thread in config.json
• time: timestamp of the thread
• author: username of the author of the thread
• ups: number of ups the thread has received
• downs: number of downs the thread has received
• authorlinkkarma: the author's link karma
• authorcommentkarma: the author's comment karma
• authorisgold: 1 if the author has gold status, 0 otherwise

All 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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