vosonSML (version 0.32.7)

Collect.reddit: Collect comments data from reddit threads

Description

Collects comments made by users on one or more specified subreddit conversation threads and structures the data into a dataframe with the class names "datasource" and "reddit".

Usage

# S3 method for reddit
Collect(
  credential,
  threadUrls,
  waitTime = c(3, 5),
  ua = getOption("HTTPUserAgent"),
  writeToFile = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  ...
)
collect_reddit_threads(
  threadUrls,
  waitTime = c(3, 5),
  ua = getOption("HTTPUserAgent"),
  writeToFile = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  ...
)

Value

A tibble object with class names "datasource" and "reddit".

Arguments

credential

A credential object generated from Authenticate with class name "reddit".

threadUrls

Character vector. Reddit thread urls to collect data from.

waitTime

Numeric vector. Time range in seconds to select random wait from in-between url collection requests. Minimum is 3 seconds. Default is c(3, 5) for a wait time chosen from between 3 and 5 seconds.

ua

Character string. Override User-Agent string to use in Reddit thread requests. Default is option("HTTPUserAgent") value as set by vosonSML.

writeToFile

Logical. Write collected data to file. Default is FALSE.

verbose

Logical. Output additional information about the data collection. Default is TRUE.

...

Additional parameters passed to function. Not used in this method.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# subreddit url to collect threads from
threadUrls <- c("https://www.reddit.com/r/xxxxxx/comments/xxxxxx/x_xxxx_xxxxxxxxx/")

redditData <- redditAuth |>
  Collect(threadUrls = threadUrls, writeToFile = TRUE)
}