{"id":22240,"date":"2023-12-13T20:06:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T20:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/?p=22240"},"modified":"2024-12-11T00:46:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T00:46:02","slug":"communalytic-can-now-collect-historical-reddit-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/2023\/12\/13\/communalytic-can-now-collect-historical-reddit-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Communalytic Can Now Collect Historical Reddit Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Reddit-Pic-12132023-1024x980.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Reddit-Pic-12132023-1024x980.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Reddit-Pic-12132023-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Reddit-Pic-12132023-768x735.jpg 768w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Reddit-Pic-12132023-696x666.jpg 696w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Reddit-Pic-12132023-1068x1023.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Reddit-Pic-12132023-439x420.jpg 439w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Reddit-Pic-12132023-1080x1034.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are pleased to announce the release of the new <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/communalytic.org\/tutorials\/tutorial-historical-data-collection-from-reddit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Reddit Historical Data Collector<\/u><\/a><\/strong> in Communalytic, a no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse. Both new and existing Communalytic users can now collect historical Reddit data (<a href=\"https:\/\/communalytic.org\/video-tutorials\/reddit-data-structure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>posts and meta data<\/u><\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This new data collector uses the official Reddit API and can support keyword-based search for relevant submissions. Edu users can collect <strong>up to 200<\/strong> recent submissions<strong> +<\/strong> corresponding comments and replies for a given public subreddit and Pro users can collect <strong>up to 900 submissions + <\/strong>comments and replies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to Reddit, Communalytic can also collect, analyze, and visualize publicly available data from other social media platforms including Telegram, YouTube, Facebook\/Instagram (via CrowdTangle), and Twitter, or from a user-uploaded CSV or JSON file.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Edu version is free to use and is designed to help students learn about social media data analytics and social network analysis. The PRO version is designed for the academic research community and is ideal for large-scale academic research projects. It provides researchers with the resources and infrastructure necessary for conducting independent research in the public interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tool is released as part of our work developing research tools, techniques, and visualization dashboards <a href=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/apps\/\"><u>to support computational social science research.<\/u><\/a> Communalytic contains a suite of advanced built-in data analytics modules including a <a href=\"https:\/\/communalytic.org\/tutorials\/#section_7_toxicity_analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Toxicity Analyzer<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/communalytic.org\/tutorials\/#section_8_sentiment_analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sentiment Analyzer<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/communalytic.org\/tutorials\/#section_9_topic_analysis_experimental\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Topic Analyzer<\/a> and a built-in <a href=\"https:\/\/communalytic.org\/tutorials\/#section_10_network_analysis_and_visualization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Network Analyzer<\/a>. These modules can be used to automatically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-regular-font-size\">detect anti-social interactions (i.e., harassment, hate speech, extremist content, etc.),<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-regular-font-size\">assess sentiments in online discourse,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-regular-font-size\">identify and group together social media posts that are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semantic_similarity\">semantically similar<\/a> and identify latent topics within your dataset,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-regular-font-size\">generate and visualize various types of networks, including communication and link-sharing networks, which in turn can be used to identify influencers, map shared interests among online actors, study the spread of mis\/dis-information and detect signs of possible coordination among seemingly disparate actors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more details, see Communalytic\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/communalytic.org\/video-tutorials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tutorials<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce the release of the new Reddit Historical Data Collector in Communalytic, a no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse. Both new and existing Communalytic users can now collect historical Reddit data (posts and meta data). This new data collector uses the official Reddit API and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,554,264],"tags":[502,552,627,416],"class_list":["post-22240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-research-tools","category-web-apps","tag-api","tag-communalytic","tag-historial","tag-reddit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22245,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22240\/revisions\/22245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}