get_reddit: Retrieves detailed information about URLs on Reddit

In toledobastos/SocialMediaMineR: A Social Media Search and Analytic Tool

Description

Takes a URL and returns a data frame with forty columns associated with the performance of the URL on Reddit. The columns are: domain, banned_by, media_embed, subreddit, selftext_html, selftext, likes, secure_media, link_flair_text, id, gilded, secure_media_embed, clicked, stickied, author, media, score, approved_by, over_18, hidden, thumbnail, subreddit_id, edited, link_flair_css_class, author_flair_css_class, downs, saved, is_self, permalink, name, created, url, author_flair_text, title, created_utc, ups, num_comments, visited, num_reports, and distinguished. The function accepts the optional variable sleep.time (default=0) to avoid hitting API limits (if implemented). Use sleep.time to define the number of seconds the function will wait before proceeding to the next URL. If the URLs are shortened, you will have to first resolve them using the function get_url().

Usage

get_reddit(links, sleep.time = 0)

Arguments

links	URL to be tracked on Reddit
sleep.time	Number of seconds the function will wait before proceeding to the next URL (optional)

Value

It returns a data frame with forty columns associated the performance of the URL on Reddit. The columns are: domain, banned_by, media_embed, subreddit, selftext_html, selftext, likes, secure_media, link_flair_text, id, gilded, secure_media_embed, clicked, stickied, author, media, score, approved_by, over_18, hidden, thumbnail, subreddit_id, edited, link_flair_css_class, author_flair_css_class, downs, saved, is_self, permalink, name, created, url, author_flair_text, title, created_utc, ups, num_comments, visited, num_reports, and distinguished.

Author(s)

Marco Bastos

References

The Reddit API documentation is available at <http://www.reddit.com/dev/api>

Examples

get_reddit("http://i.imgur.com/rSnA8.png")

toledobastos/SocialMediaMineR documentation built on May 31, 2019, 5:14 p.m.