PushshiftDumps
Example scripts for the pushshift dump files (by Watchful1)
zreader
Read compressed NDJSON .zst files easily (by pushshift)
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PushshiftDumps
Posts with mentions or reviews of PushshiftDumps.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-15.
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Pushshift Dumps Help: Only getting submissions, that are named comments
I am trying to get comments and submissions from specific subreddits. So far, I've run the u/watchful1 script combine_folder_mutipleprocess.py and have been able process a few files.
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Create and Search In Your Own Reddit Database
FYI, you can use my filter_file.py script to directly extract out submissions with a certain title. There's a place you can put in a file with a list of keywords to filter on if you have a lot of them. Or it would be fairly easy to modify to use a regex. There are also steps listed to export the list of submission ids and then filter a comments file to only comments from those submissions. You can also export directly to CSV, though you would want to use zst files for any intermediate steps. Let me know if anything in there doesn't work.
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Reddit starting to bring back deleted comments.
This repo has good examples of scripts to use them, https://github.com/Watchful1/PushshiftDumps
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Encountered a non-utf8 character
def read_redditfile(file: str) -> dict: """ Iterate over the pushshift JSON lines, yielding them as Python dicts. Decompress iteratively if necessary. """ # older files in the dataset are uncompressed while newer ones use zstd compression and have .xz, .bz2, or .zst endings if not file.endswith('.bz2') and not file.endswith('.xz') and not file.endswith('.zst'): with open(file, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as infile: for line in infile: l = json.loads(line) yield(l) else: # code by Watchful1 written for the Pushshift offline dataset, found here: https://github.com/Watchful1/PushshiftDumps with open(file, 'rb') as fh: dctx = ZstdDecompressor(max_window_size=2147483648) with dctx.stream_reader(fh) as reader: previous_line = "" while True: chunk = reader.read(2**24) # 16mb chunks if not chunk: break string_data = chunk.decode('utf-8') lines = string_data.split("\n") for i, line in enumerate(lines[:-1]): if i == 0: line = previous_line + line comment = json.loads(line) yield comment previous_line = lines[-1]
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What to do after decompressing the files from academic torrents?
Just look a folder down in the github repo https://github.com/Watchful1/PushshiftDumps/tree/master/scripts the scripts are still there.
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What are you using to browse/self host downloaded reddit?
I am working with the ZST files downloaded from Pushshift and sorted into subreddits by the lovely u/watchful1 here. ZST is too compressed to browse on its own but using scripts like this one you can process them into readable NDJSON files. From there im not sure what to do. I would like to have a self hosted reddit-clone that i can import these dumps into and browse freely.
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Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest
The whole reddit (posts and comments separately) from 2005-06 until 2022-12 is on this [1] torrent link, it's very easy to download, extract and use the data [2]. I'm writing my thesis about the connection between the reddit post's type and the comment structure, and I've been working with this data, for a few months, it's amazing.
[1] https://academictorrents.com/details/7c0645c94321311bb05bd87...
[2] https://github.com/Watchful1/PushshiftDumps
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Reddit, API calls, and AI - Who does your knowledge belong to?
Sure! You can download the compressed data from this torrent, then you can use this project if you want to just decompress and process the data.
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Script to find overlapping users between subreddits from dump files
You can go through the process outlined in that thread to download the subreddit's you're interested in, then add them at the top of the new script, run it and it will output the list of overlapping users. It will actually likely be faster than the old script even counting download times for the dumps since the api was so slow. Though you are limited to the available 20k subreddits.
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This Reddit Community Has Been Archived
how I read the file? First I got tried to extrat the file ok I got it, but them I text file I can't read that., I saw a few people saing it was just a json file I tried with a json reader but it say the json data is invalid, them I tried this program but nothing happens no new file is created or something, here a print, maybe I'm doing something wrong but I don't know because the script don't have any instruction how to use it!
zreader
Posts with mentions or reviews of zreader.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.
- 📣 I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support
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Encountered a non-utf8 character
I had the same problem using pushshift zreader class, probably caused by a multibyte sequence split across two chunks of decompressed data.
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.zst file extraction into a pd dataframe
Take a look at this pushshift repository: https://github.com/pushshift/zreader
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PushshiftDumps and zreader you can also consider the following projects:
Sketchpad
jointhefediverse.net
Pushshift-Importer
reddit-history - A reddit account history exporter
RedditLemmyImporter - 🔥 Anti-Reddit Aktion 🔥
xtarfile - Wrapper around tarfile to add support for more compression formats
7-Zip-zstd - 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard
Reddit-Enhancement-Suite - Reddit Enhancement Suite
reddit-project-public
psarch
Lemmy - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
redarc - Reddit archiver
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zreader vs Reddit-Enhancement-Suite
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