Pushshift Reddit — 2009-11

A Reddit (Pushshift archive, 2009-11) dataset of 1,010,489 comments and 780,046 reply edges, collected by Jason Baumgartner via Pushshift.io Reddit API archive. Each record contains directed reply graph, 1,937 subreddits, content metrics: score, controversiality, gilded. Monthly slice of the Pushshift Reddit corpus for 2009-11 — full comment text, reply graph, and engagement metrics across 1,937 subreddits.. Suitable for longitudinal Reddit analysis, reply network structure, community detection, sentiment analysis, engagement research.

#Controversiality#Monthly snapshot#Pushshift#Reply network#Subreddit

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The full graph has 1,010,489 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

1M
Nodes
780K
Edges
7.64e-07
Density
230.4K
Components
0.0%
Reciprocity
780K
Bridges
Most central nodes
c0fx3ho0.00179
c0ffurf8e-05
c0faxs67e-05
c0ff6wv7e-05
c0fp3xb5e-05
c0fynt15e-05
c0fp66l5e-05
c0fynws5e-05
c0fbw1o5e-05
c0fp5kn5e-05
Content metrics

1,675,086 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 4.013 ± 16.55
min -527max 3K
gilded0.0% true
true 0.0%false 100.0%
6.9
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
7.3
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
likedonpeoplethinkknowtimegoodwaywantrightgoingworkuseactuallythingsdoesnneedgotthingbetteryearsdidnlifeprettylotsaidsurefindpointnewprobablylookyesisnguygreatbestdayreadmoneyworldfeellovelittlelongbadproblemtryredditmean
Topic clusters

Topic 0

reddit
downvote
comment
upvote
post
troll
read
fuck

Topic 1

game
play
player
console
time
like
fun
board

Topic 2

religion
god
jesus
christian
atheist
church
believe
christians

Topic 3

feel
woman
child
relationship
year
thing
wife
life

Topic 4

party
vote
obama
system
republican
candidate
conservative
voting

Topic 5

song
music
video
watch
album
episode
season
listen

Topic 6

look
pant
girl
nipple
hot
like
foot
hand

Topic 7

math
teacher
money
school
pay
class
college
oil

Topic 8

tax
taxis
pay
government
money
health
private
people

Topic 9

halloween
costume
candy
trick
kid
dress
treat
mask

Topic 10

jews
israel
jewish
land
country
israeli
war
palestine

Topic 11

police
cop
arrest
officer
law
warrant
talk
brandon
Show all 33 topics

Topic 12

weed
smoke
alcohol
quit
high
smoking
addiction
pot

Topic 13

code
language
return
write
function
php
compiler
use

Topic 14

eat
taste
bacon
cook
fry
sauce
food
sandwich

Topic 15

map
sun
daylight
twilight
time
gps
hour
month

Topic 16

windows
itunes
linux
mac
drive
user
computer
file

Topic 17

movie
film
horror
watch
scary
canadian
good
scene

Topic 18

bike
fuel
rocket
ship
engine
car
tire
size

Topic 19

thank
try
tip
interesting
invitation
help
post
know

Topic 20

china
pakistan
pakistani
chinese
laden
tibet
bin
afghanistan

Topic 21

think
agree
guess
idea
thought
exactly
mean
reason

Topic 22

funny
laugh
joke
hilarious
comedy
leno
chappelle
parody

Topic 23

gun
criminal
weapon
law
shoot
rifle
carry
shotgun

Topic 24

link
google
firefox
click
page
tinyurl
search
tab

Topic 25

restaurant
water
waiter
tip
shower
sleep
service
server

Topic 26

picture
image
pic
camera
photo
look
exposure
photoshop

Topic 27

vaccine
flu
plague
virus
viral
swine
disease
doctor

Topic 28

good
glad
cool
welcome
wow
nice
job
impressive

Topic 29

yes
right
yeah
maybe
sure
true
yep
definitely

Topic 30

murder
kill
death
sentence
punishment
penalty
crime
life

Topic 31

question
ask
know
answer
iama
mean
sense
explain

Topic 32

zombie
vampire
dead
dracula
frankenstein
die
jesus
undead
Top hashtags
#142
#t30
#224
#315
#include11
#48
#p8
#57
#v7
#akhtar6
#define6
#64
#73
#history3
#172
#182
#302
#462
#82
#be2

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 1.6M records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
pushshift-reddit-2009-11
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
1,675,086
Nodes
1,010,489
Edges
780,046
Nodes are
comment
Edges are
reply
Attributes
nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
Text corpus
comment text
Languages
en
Collected
2009-11 (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, 194.3 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 — 2009-11 [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 — 2009-11. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7347.

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