Pushshift Reddit — 2008-06

A Reddit (Pushshift archive, 2008-06) dataset of 387,630 comments and 173,588 reply edges, collected by Jason Baumgartner via Pushshift.io Reddit API archive. Each record contains comment tree graph (nodes=comments, edges=reply relationships), 431 subreddits, node attributes: author, subreddit, score. Monthly slice of the Pushshift Reddit corpus for 2008-06 — comment tree graph showing reply structure, full comment text, and per-comment engagement metrics across 431 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 226,720 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

226.7K
Nodes
173.6K
Edges
3.38e-06
Density
53.1K
Components
0
Assortativity
0.0%
Reciprocity
173.6K
Bridges
Most central nodes
c04ehte0.00013
c048ux70.00012
c049ry00.00011
c04ehys0.00011
c04axmc0.0001
c04geft0.0001
c04hydn0.0001
c04ctyx9e-05
c04d5v79e-05
c04gwl89e-05
Content metrics

387,630 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 3.819 ± 12.28
min -115max 1.5K
gilded0.0% true
true 0.0%false 100.0%
7.2
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
7.7
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
likepeopledonthinkknowtimegoodwayrightwantobamagoingusedoesnactuallythingpointneedworkthingsyearsbettersaidsureisndidnredditgotlotworldnewreadprettymoneylookyesvoteprobablymanlifemeanthoughtbadlongdayfindlittleletmaybebelieve
Topic clusters

Topic 0

vote
obama
hillary
clinton
party
mccain
delegate
candidate

Topic 1

woman
child
sex
man
girl
rape
like
look

Topic 2

year
think
old
time
day
word
guess
week

Topic 3

car
energy
force
heat
question
temperature
physics
water

Topic 4

thank
sound
like
good
know
guy
song
love

Topic 5

smoke
eat
animal
smoker
smoking
meat
food
bar

Topic 6

religion
god
christian
muslim
atheist
christians
muslims
religious

Topic 7

firefox
javascript
script
google
browser
alert
tab
link

Topic 8

linux
driver
ati
windows
card
ubuntu
menu
work

Topic 9

right
water
government
human
taxis
people
property
market

Topic 10

fuck
suck
fucking
bitch
sad
asshole
bad
shit

Topic 11

reddit
comment
upvote
subreddit
post
digg
downvote
submission
Show all 19 topics

Topic 12

funny
laugh
joke
pun
csi
hilarious
humor
comedy

Topic 13

language
ruby
code
smalltalk
java
lisp
python
programming

Topic 14

foot
hand
ball
shoe
left
shoot
finger
leg

Topic 15

nsfw
porn
tag
subreddit
reddit
click
submission
link

Topic 16

toilet
seat
lid
woman
pee
sit
bathroom
soap

Topic 17

war
iraq
military
iraqi
troop
country
army
government

Topic 18

money
price
loan
bank
credit
oil
inflation
interest
Top hashtags
#167
#233
#311
#47
#xo6
#united_states5
#val5
#64
#143
#233
#243
#263
#53
#also3
#define3
#102
#2001_paedophilia_special2
#222
#82
#by_title2

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 376.5K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
pushshift-reddit-2008-06
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
387,630
Nodes
226,720
Edges
173,588
Nodes are
user
Edges are
reply
Attributes
nodes have attributes; edges have no attributes
Text corpus
comment text
Languages
en
Collected
2008-06 (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, 47.3 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 — 2008-06 [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 — 2008-06. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7347.

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