Search Pushshift.io for Reddit comments

Usage

search_comments(
  q = "",
  subreddit = NULL,
  size = 25,
  after = NULL,
  before = NULL,
  parse_date = TRUE,
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...
)

q: character, Query term
subreddit: Restrict results to subreddit (use "!" to negate, comma delimited for multiples)
size: integer, Number of results to return
after: integer, Restrict results to those made after this epoch time
before: integer, Restrict results to those made before this epoch time
parse_date: logical, should epoch time be converted to date? defaults to TRUE
verbose: logical, Whether to display messages
...: Further arguments passed as query parameters. See [ps_params] for all possible parameters.

tibble of comments

Use [to_epoch] to convert a date to epoch time

if (FALSE) {
# get the last 100 comments with the word 'cats'
search_comments(q = "cats", size = 100)
}