QueryPushshift: Query data from pushshift.io

In Spiritspeak/PAWR: Pushshift API Wrapper for R

Description

Query data from pushshift.io

Usage

QueryPushshift(
  type = c("comment", "submission", "subreddit"),
  as.df = T,
  purge = F,
  verbose = getOption("PAWR.VerboseGet"),
  size = getOption("PAWR.QuerySize"),
  aggs = c("none", "author", "link_id", "created_utc", "subreddit"),
  agg_size = 0,
  q = NULL,
  metadata = TRUE,
  ...
)

QueryPushshiftMeta()

Arguments

type	Type of requested content. Can be comment, submission, or subreddit.
as.df	Convert output to data.frame? Defaults to TRUE.
purge	Purge deleted posts? Defaults to FALSE.
verbose	Should output be verbose? Defaults to a global option which can be set with options(PAWR.VerboseGet=TRUE/FALSE).
size	Maximum number of pieces of content to return. Defaults to the maximum, which is 500, except when using aggs, when it defaults to 0.
agg_size	Maximum number of values to return when using aggs; defaults to 500 unless you're not using aggs.
q	Query term.
metadata	Request metadata from pushshift, which will be used to check whether the query was successful or some of pushshift's shards failed to respond. This is recommended for academic research.
...	Other valid parameters. Run PSParams() to see all valid parameters and their descriptions.

Value

If as.df=T, returns a data.frame; else, returns a list.

Functions

• QueryPushshiftMeta: Query pushshift's meta endpoint

Examples

#Get u/spez's first ever comment
QueryPushshift(author="spez",after=0,size=1)

#See in which subreddits the word "gamer" is used the most
QueryPushshift(q="Gamer",aggs="subreddit")
QueryPushshiftMeta()$client_user_agent

Spiritspeak/PAWR documentation built on March 21, 2021, 4:14 p.m.