RedditExtractoR (version 3.0.9)

find_thread_urls: Find Reddit thread URLs

Description

Find URLs to reddit threads of interest. There are 2 available search strategies: by keywords and by home page. Using a set of keywords Can help you narrow down your search to a topic of interest that crosses multiple subreddits whereas searching by home page can help you find, for example, top posts within a specific subreddit

Usage

find_thread_urls(
  keywords = NA,
  sort_by = "top",
  subreddit = NA,
  period = "month"
)

Value

a data frame with URLs to Reddit threads that are relevant to your input parameters

Arguments

keywords

A optional string that you want to search for, e.g. "cute kittens". If NA, then either your front page will be searched or the front page of a specified subreddit

sort_by

A string representing how you want Reddit to sort the results. Note that this string is conditional on whether you are searching by keywords or not. If you are searching by keywords, then it must be one of: relevance, comments, new, hot, top; if you are not searching by keywords, then it must be one of: hot, new, top, rising

subreddit

(optional) A string representing the subreddit of interest

period

A string representing the period of interest (hour, day, week, month, year, all)

Examples

if (FALSE) {
find_thread_urls(keywords="cute kittens", subreddit="cats", sort_by="new", period="month")
find_thread_urls(subreddit="cats", sort_by="rising", period="all")
}