Pushshift Reddit — 2007-11

A Reddit (Pushshift archive, 2007-11) dataset of 215,657 comments and 98,694 reply edges, collected by Jason Baumgartner via Pushshift.io Reddit API archive. Each record contains comment tree graph (nodes=comments, edges=reply relationships), 30 subreddits, node attributes: author, subreddit, score. Monthly slice of the Pushshift Reddit corpus for 2007-11 — comment tree graph showing reply structure, full comment text, and per-comment engagement metrics across 30 subreddits.. Suitable for Reddit comment tree analysis, reply network structure, community detection, sentiment analysis, engagement research, longitudinal Reddit growth studies.

#Comment tree#Pushshift#Reply network#Subreddit

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The full graph has 127,536 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

127.5K
Nodes
98.7K
Edges
6.07e-06
Density
28.8K
Components
0.0%
Reciprocity
98.7K
Bridges
Most central nodes
c02gn3h0.00016
c02k0q00.00015
c02dcv30.00014
c02gqbr0.00013
c02dvtw0.00013
c02hjhc0.00013
c02dseh0.00012
c02jg7s0.00012
c02dejd0.00011
c02jqro0.00011
Content metrics

215,657 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 3.936 ± 10.66
min -103max 851
7.5
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
8.0
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
peoplelikedonthinkknowtimegoodrightwaywantdoesnusepaulactuallypointgoingneedmoneythingsthingbetternewgovernmentworldredditisnworkyearsronarticlesaidreadsuredidnlotlooksystemyesbadfindfreerealbelievemeangotwarbushproblemprettyfact
Topic clusters

Topic 0

reddit
article
google
link
post
comment
page
news

Topic 1

pay
money
government
health
insurance
tax
care
dollar

Topic 2

bush
hillary
obama
vote
president
candidate
kucinich
clinton

Topic 3

vista
port
linux
build
software
run
project
user

Topic 4

right
speech
torture
protest
people
privacy
funeral
public

Topic 5

israel
iran
war
bomb
pakistan
jewish
jews
country

Topic 6

language
haskell
xml
programming
code
program
java
write

Topic 7

oil
global
energy
earth
year
warming
price
planet

Topic 8

dog
look
wear
photo
picture
costume
bear
shoe

Topic 9

car
bus
key
road
mile
metric
drive
system

Topic 10

yeah
yes
good
cool
awesome
pretty
sexy
nice

Topic 11

god
bible
jesus
christian
religious
believe
life
science
Show all 16 topics

Topic 12

food
eat
meat
virus
subsidy
cheap
cell
corn

Topic 13

paul
ron
supporter
campaign
spam
candidate
giuliani
poll

Topic 14

woman
man
sex
strip
club
gay
feminist
male

Topic 15

think
guess
wonder
old
question
kid
sound
mean
Top hashtags
#163
#238
#319
#45
#55
#75
#85
#haskell5
#include5
#64
#94
#comment4
#103
#e3
#health_effects3
#history3
#navigation3
#s3
#terrorist_attacks3
#united_states3

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 209.8K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
pushshift-reddit-2007-11
Authors
Baumgartner, Jason; Zannettou, Savvas; Keegan, Brian; Squire, Megan; Blackburn, Jeremy
Year
2020
Source paper
The Pushshift Reddit Dataset
DOI / arXiv
10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7347
License
Unknown
Records
215,657
Nodes
127,536
Edges
98,694
Nodes are
user
Edges are
reply
Attributes
nodes have attributes; edges have no attributes
Text corpus
comment text
Languages
en
Collected
2007-11 (2000s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://files.pushshift.io/reddit/comments/ unverified
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 27.4 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{baumgartner2020pushshift,
  title         = {The Pushshift Reddit Dataset},
  author        = {Baumgartner, Jason and Zannettou, Savvas and Keegan, Brian and Squire, Megan and Blackburn, Jeremy},
  year          = {2020},
  eprint        = {2001.08435},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Baumgartner, J., Zannettou, S., Keegan, B., Squire, M., & Blackburn, J. (2020). Pushshift Reddit — 2007-11 [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7347

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Baumgartner, Jason, et al. Pushshift Reddit — 2007-11. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7347.

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