- Clone this repo (git clone ${the link you get when you click on the green button to the top right here})
- Make sure you have Python 3 installed as well as pip3.
- Install virtualenv: (
pip3 install virtualenv) - Create a new Python3 virtual environment (
virtualenv $path_to_your_environment): for example,virtualenv ~/alyssa/my_env) - Activate your virtual environment (
source $path_to_your_environment/bin/activate): for example,source ~/alyssa/my_env/bin/activate) - Install requirements in your virtual environment (
pip3 install -r requirements.txt)
- Loosely based off of this tutorial, with expansions.
- To start off, make a reddit account if you don't have one.
- Navigate to the apps console (follow the tutorial linked above) to create your very own app.
- Put your credentials in the appropriate places in
creds.yaml. This ensures that you won't upload your credentials to Git accidentally! - Choose a subreddit to explore! Put its name in the appropriate place in
example.py. - Add the search term. Remember,
|means OR and&means AND! - Run
example.pyand collect some data! This might take a while. - You can decrease the number of days you're looking at (last line of
example.py) if you're in a hurry. - For instructions on how to get something to run on your computer without you jiggling the mouse every so often, try this
- In another window, activate your virtual environment you created previously. Launch a jupyter notebook server (
jupyter notebook). - In this repo, we've provided a sample data pickle file with usernames hashed for privacy; feel free to use this to play around! It contains 365 days of /r/legaladvice's mentions of any FAANG company (Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google).
- Take a look at dataviz.ipynb and explore the examples. What do you want to know about your data?