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PSAWR is a Pushsift.io API Wrapper written in R for comment/submission search for Reddit.

Reddit is revoking the API access of pushshift (message,2023-05-02) once this is enforced, the package will probably stop working

Installation

You can install the development version of PSAWR like so:

devtools::install_github("schochastics/PSAWR")

Search comments

Get the last 100 comments mentioning dogs in the subreddit cats.

search_coments(q = "dogs", subreddit = "cats", size = 100)

Search subreddits

Get the last 10 submissions mentioning cats in the subreddit dogs.

search_submissions(q="cats", subreddit = "dogs",size = 10)