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task_categories:
- feature-extraction
- text-generation
language:
- en
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---

# Reddit Popular Dataset

Dataset of 10000 posts which appeared on /r/popular on Reddit.

## Dataset Details

The Reddit API limits how many posts one can retrieve from a specific subreddit to 1000. This dataset contains data for almost all posts which appeared on /r/popular from *Saturday, July 27, 2024 9:23:51 PM GMT* to *Saturday, August 24, 2024 9:48:19 PM GMT*. 

Additional data such as comments, scores, and media were obtained by *Friday, November 15, 2024 5:00:00 AM GMT*. 

### The Media Directory

This is a dump of all media in the dataset. It contains only PNGs.

### ID Files

This dataset contains 2 files for identification: **main.csv** and **media.csv**.

### main.csv Fields

*main.csv* includes metadata and text data about the post:

 - post_id: int - A unique, dataset-specific identifier for each post.
 - create_utc: int - The time (in seconds) the post was created, in epoch time.
 - post_url: string - The URL of the post. This can be used to collect further data depending on your purposes.
 - title: string - Title of the post.
 - comment[1-3]: string|nan - The text of the i-th top-scoring comment.
 - comment[1-3]_score: int|nan - The score of the i-th top-scoring comment.


### media.csv Fields

*media.csv* includes identifiers for media:

 - post_id: int - Identifies the post the media is associated to. Refers to post_id in *main.csv*
 - media_path: str - Locates the file containing the media. This path is relative to *media.csv*'s directory.

## Data Collection

Every 2 hours, a routine scraped 200 posts from /r/popular through the Reddit API then saved the URL of every post to a database from about *July 27, 2024* to *August 24, 2024*. 

The script *collect_all_reddit.py* then created the dataset on *November 15, 2024*.

## Usage Guide

This guide uses pandas and PIL to load data:

    import pandas as pd
    import csv

    from PIL import Image

Load the main and media data using

    df_main = pd.read_csv("main.csv", sep="\t", quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONE)
    df_media = pd.read_csv("media.csv", sep="\t", quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONE)

To create a combined language-image dataset, use an SQL-Like join:

    df_lang_img = pd.merge(df_main, df_media, how="left", on="post_id")

This creates a new dataframe with all the columns from *main.csv* and *media.csv*. In this new dataframe, each post is repeated for each associated image. If a post does not have an image, the *media_path* is NaN.

Let's consider one row:

    row = df_lang_img.iloc[0]

Then the image can be loaded with

    with Image.open(row["media_path"]) as im:
        im.show()