How to Extract and Save Reddit Data using R and RedditExtractoR

Online surveys and other methods that generate unrepresentative samples may be convenient for the early researcher, but they generate results that don't tell us much. Fortunately, there are other options out there. In this video, we consider one of them: examining the entirety of content and interaction in an online Reddit community. Using R, R Studio, and an R package called RedditExtractoR, it's possible to collect complete data for analysis without much trouble. Here's how.

[groaningupright]

This is a great, easy to follow video! I'm extracting data and performing various automated text analyses on large databases like a pro now.

[mikorees]

Thank you Prof James Cook for this useful video!! I was looking for it a lot.

[benehasler]

Thank you so much, such a great tutorial. Really easy to understand and follow!

[missred]

Hi James, Thank you very much for this video and all your work. Is the new Reddit Extractor version published in October 2021 very different to the one you were using at the time of this tutorial? Does it have the same functions? I realized, for example, there are no page_thresholds in the new version.

[belenfernandez]

This is a great video! Thank you for it! It was really helpful!

[Alberto-nggs]

Hi James! Very helpful video! I wanted to ask you if a new version came out since the get_reddit function does not appear anymore. Do you happen to know if there's a similar function? I'd appreciate it much given that I'm doing this for my master's thesis!! :)

[StatatUTK]

Awesome package! Is it possible for find_thread_urls in the new version to parse past page 3? I've run in to issues when I use period = "all" where it stops for longer keywords and I don't see the full history.

Thanks!

[tymtsp]

Great video; very helpful! One question: Is there a way to extract Reddit comments from one specific post instead of the entire subreddit?

[arushisharma]

this is great explanation to understand from. Sir, I have question, is there any way that I can get the "geographical location" of the given user or comments?

[PhilippJohn]

Is there a way to specify a "start date" and "end date" as parameters for get_reddit? E.g. say I only want to scrape from January 1, 2021 to January 10, 2021? Great video, thanks!

[tazrinkhan]

Thank you for this useful video. Can you please tell me how can I extract Reddit data using keywords, not from any particular subreddit?

[LeeHanah-pggx]

Thank you so much for your useful video. I followed it and got the error "Error in is.data.frame(x) :
object not found". Can you help me to fix it? Thank you so much

[cgai]

do you need to be registered to reddit to use it?

[roanbuma]

R doesn't stand for 'research', it's the first letter of the names of the two developers who created the language

[loveskr]

on reddit I comment on any post. My comment is not being shown to the people. Please be Anyone help me how fix this problem

[vikim.]

Great video, thank you! When I try to extract data from a subreddit, I get a 429 Unknown Error and cannot open URL message, however I still get some data from the website (just not a lot). Anyone has an idea about how this can be fixed? :)

[juliegarrido]

Great Video, Thanks!. How can I download all the data in a subreddit (From the first submission to the most recent)? Is this possible with R?