#SubredditAnalysis (Ruby)

A Ruby implementation based on but not a direct port of RedditAnalysisBot by SirNeon

###Requirements

• Ruby 2.3.1
• redd
• Sqlite3

###Install Dependencies

• Clone the repo
• bundle install
• create a config.yml in config based on the example pointing to your Reddit script app credentials

###Test

• Uses minitest and mocha
• bundle exec rake test

###Run The Bot ./bin/run_subreddit_analysis [subreddit_name e.g. askreddit]

###Configuration Options

• user_agent: [should be descriptive and reference your user name]
• data_folder: [where to put the sqlite db file]
• submission_limit: [how many submissions to crawl for the selected subreddit]
• comment_limit: [how many comments to crawl for each submission]
• user_activity_limit: [how many comments and submissions to crawl for each user who submitted or commented to the seleced subreddit]

###Dealing with Reddit rate limiting

• The bot tries to honor the timeout provided via redd on errors but otherwise sleeps for a set period before retrying

###Results

• Are dropped into a csv file in a reports folder titled by date and subreddit
• File has a simple count of the number of different submitters and commenters of the selected subreddit also submitted or commented into another subreddit

count	subreddit
AskReddit	12711
funny	6543
pics	6089
todayilearned	5690
Showerthoughts	5228
gaming	5055
videos	4530
gifs	4129
news	3907