In BelangerAnalytics/pushshiftR: Search Reddit comments using the PushShift API

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pushshiftR

The goal of pushshiftR is to make it easy to query the Push Shift Reddit comment search API.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("BelangerAnalytics/pushshiftR")

Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to do a basic query:

library(pushshiftR)

# query the PushShift API
results <- pushshiftR::get_reddit_comments(q = '"quantum field theory"', size = 10, verbose = FALSE)

# print the results (with some trimming/formatting to make a nice table)
results %>%
  dplyr::select(author, subreddit, body, created_datetime ) %>%
  dplyr::mutate(body = stringr::str_trunc(body, width = 200)) %>%
  dplyr::mutate(body = stringr::str_replace_all(body, "\\n", " ")) %>%
  knitr::kable()