Around 260,000 threads / comments scraped from Reddit. Useful dataset for NLP projects.
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 / threadid: Unique reddit id for the comment / threadsubreddit: Subreddit that the comment / thread belongs tometa: Metareddit that the comment / thread belongs to. Subreddits belong to metareddits. A subreddit can beleagueoflegends. The metareddit for that subreddit would begaming, which can also include the subredditdota2time: UNIX timestamp of the comment / threadauthor: Username of the author of the comment / threadups: Number of upvotes the comment / thread receiveddowns: Number of downvotes the comment / thread receivedauthorlinkkarma: 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.1for gold users,0for non-gold (normal) users. Reddit FAQ explaining gold status.
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
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 threadtitle: title of the threadurl: url of the threadid: unique ID of the threadsubreddit: subreddit that the thread belongs tometa: meta tag assigned to the subreddit of the thread inconfig.jsontime: timestamp of the threadauthor: username of the author of the threadups: number of ups the thread has receiveddowns: number of downs the thread has receivedauthorlinkkarma: the author's link karmaauthorcommentkarma: the author's comment karmaauthorisgold:1if the author has gold status,0otherwise
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 commentid: unique ID of the commentsubreddit: subreddit that the thread belongs tometa: meta tag assigned to the subreddit of the thread inconfig.jsontime: timestamp of the threadauthor: username of the author of the threadups: number of ups the thread has receiveddowns: number of downs the thread has receivedauthorlinkkarma: the author's link karmaauthorcommentkarma: the author's comment karmaauthorisgold:1if the author has gold status,0otherwise
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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