reddit-search

a tool for searching the pushshift reddit dumps written in rust. Available from crates.io via cargo install reddit-search

The dumps are available via torrent from here: https://academictorrents.com/details/7c0645c94321311bb05bd879ddee4d0eba08aaee

usage

To see command line parameters, use reddit-search -h or --help

Sample usage commands

Basic Usage

reddit-search --input <input file path> --output <output file path> --fields <field:value> ...

Iterating over the whole dataset

Unix-like Shell (Bash, ZSH, etc)

for file in /path/to/dumps; do; reddit-search --append -i $file -o output.json -f field:value; done

Powershell

Get-ChildItem C:\path\to\dumps | ForEach-Object { reddit-search.exe --input $_.FullName -f subreddit:schwiiz -o output_schwiiz_submissions.json --append }