Extracting Reddit Data With R and the package RedditExtractoR (2023 Update)

This walkthrough video demonstrates how to use the new version of the RedditExtractoR package for the free research program R (and its free, more polished presentation in RStudio) in order to download social media information about content of posts and comments and social network relations between Reddit users. The simple 3-line script here will work for any subreddit, making the grabbing of data easy as pie for the enabling of further univariate and multivariate analysis.

This video is recorded for students in the social science degree program at the University of Maine at Augusta, which has a mission to make higher education available to as many people as possible. That's why we're glad to share this video with you!

[_nikolas]

James Cook Sir you cooked with this video

[owlofjune]

This was super helpful for someone who has never coded anything before. Thank you lots!

[seanlandsman]

As a post-secondary educator myself, I have a knack for identifying strong teachers and you have a gift for explanation! Your students are lucky to learn from you. Thanks for all these resources.

[jadesierra]

This is super great work that you're doing. I really appreciate how you explain every part of the code in such a simple way!

[caspercascade]

oh m y gosh this video is gonna save my entire msc project THANK YOU

[KevinVan-pucr]

Thank your for your sharing and your interesting tutorial!

[marcelmertens]

Awesome, Thank you, it helped me a lot during my MSc Thesis

[mahtabtalafian]

Hi James! Thank you, it was super helpful. Just one quick question. You limited the Period to Day, but R extracted data with different dates. How did it happen?

[An-kzef]

Is it still possible to construct a SNS visualization like in one of your older videos? I don't see the construct_graph option on the new version of the RedditExtractoR package. Thank you for your time!

[Alberto-nggs]

Hi James! Thanks so much for this video, it's so helpful and well explained!! I just have one question: I'm trying to search threads and subsequent comments by keyword, would it be possible to do such a thing? I guess it would be somewhere with Btw I went to UNC, so this was a perfect example :D

[selmakoso]

Thanks a lot for this insightful video! It truly is helping me with my master thesis. I do have a question. How do you extract the data for the whole year? (for example 2023)

[melaniekoskie]

Can I use this method to extract the contents of one specific post in a subreddit that has been archived (9 months ago)?

[zacks]

Hi James, amazing video! Just wondering if this still works with reddits new API terms?

[Alokparekh]

Sir, when I run the command for URLs, I am not getting a new data set. Could you please help me with that?

[antoninmoryson]

Hello james,
I am trying to work through my research extracting data. The only thing is min only stops at page 3 instead of going on like yours does, any idea why is that ?