Collect.reddit: Collect comments data from reddit threads

In vosonSML: Collecting Social Media Data and Generating Networks for Analysis

Collect comments data from reddit threads

Description

Collects comments made by users on one or more specified subreddit conversation threads and structures the data into a dataframe with the class names "datasource" and "reddit".

Usage

## S3 method for class 'reddit'
Collect(
  credential,
  threadUrls,
  waitTime = c(3, 5),
  ua = getOption("HTTPUserAgent"),
  writeToFile = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  ...
)

collect_reddit_threads(
  threadUrls,
  waitTime = c(3, 5),
  ua = getOption("HTTPUserAgent"),
  writeToFile = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

credential	A credential object generated from Authenticate with class name "reddit".
threadUrls	Character vector. Reddit thread urls to collect data from.
waitTime	Numeric vector. Time range in seconds to select random wait from in-between url collection requests. Minimum is 3 seconds. Default is c(3, 5) for a wait time chosen from between 3 and 5 seconds.
ua	Character string. Override User-Agent string to use in Reddit thread requests. Default is option("HTTPUserAgent") value as set by vosonSML.
writeToFile	Logical. Write collected data to file. Default is FALSE.
verbose	Logical. Output additional information about the data collection. Default is TRUE.
...	Additional parameters passed to function. Not used in this method.

Value

A tibble object with class names "datasource" and "reddit".

Note

The reddit web endpoint used for collection has maximum limit of 500 comments per thread url.

Examples

## Not run: 
# subreddit url to collect threads from
threadUrls <- c("https://www.reddit.com/r/xxxxxx/comments/xxxxxx/x_xxxx_xxxxxxxxx/")

redditData <- redditAuth |>
  Collect(threadUrls = threadUrls, writeToFile = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

vosonSML documentation built on Aug. 16, 2022, 5:14 p.m.