Top 1000 Posts from 5000 Subreddits

Encompassing the top posts from 5000 subreddits, with up to 1000 posts per subreddit. It was created by the author 'rocca' and last updated in March 2022.

Use Cases

• Analyze post score distributions across 5000 subreddits to identify high-engagement communities.
• Study the relationship between subscriber count and the score of top posts within each subreddit.
• Compare comment activity metrics for the top posts across different subreddit categories.

Strengths

• Covers a broad scope of 5000 subreddits.
• Includes up to 1000 top posts per subreddit, providing depth for popular communities.
• Data is structured by subreddit in separate JSON files for targeted analysis.

Limitations

• The exact number of rows is unknown and some subreddits have fewer than 1000 posts due to a score-based crawl cutoff.
• No comment data is included, limiting analysis to post-level attributes.
• Data is from a snapshot in 2022 and may not reflect current Reddit activity.

Provenance

Source

Reddit

Collection Method

Web crawling of top-posts lists from subreddits, stopping when a post with a score less than 5 was encountered.

Time Range

All-time top posts up to the crawl date.

Freshness

2022-03-23