Pushshift Reddit — 2009-03

A Reddit (Pushshift archive, 2009-03) dataset of 724,884 comments and 324,106 reply edges, collected by Jason Baumgartner via Pushshift.io Reddit API archive. Each record contains comment tree graph (nodes=comments, edges=reply relationships), 1,038 subreddits, node attributes: author, subreddit, score. Monthly slice of the Pushshift Reddit corpus for 2009-03 — comment tree graph showing reply structure, full comment text, and per-comment engagement metrics across 1,038 subreddits.. Suitable for Reddit comment tree analysis, reply network structure, community detection, sentiment analysis, engagement research, longitudinal Reddit growth studies.

#Comment tree#Monthly snapshot#Pushshift#Subreddit

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The full graph has 422,293 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

422.3K
Nodes
324.1K
Edges
1.82e-06
Density
98.2K
Components
0.0%
Reciprocity
324.1K
Bridges
Most central nodes
c08hi3n0.00014
c088ye80.00014
c08ha8b0.00014
c08fspv0.00013
c0897m40.00012
c08clrd0.00012
c0838bw0.00011
c084hfa9e-05
c086uc99e-05
c07z4u48e-05
Content metrics

724,884 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 3.943 ± 13.25
min -105max 1.5K
7.1
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
7.6
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
likepeopledonthinktimeknowgoodwayrightwantusegoingdoesnactuallyneedworkyearsthingthingsbetterpointmoneygotdidnsuresaidnewreadlotisnprettycaregovernmentredditlookfindpayprobablyyeslittlelifesystembadworldmeanproblemmandaylonggod
Topic clusters

Topic 0

dog
look
like
beer
eat
food
water
drink

Topic 1

god
israel
religion
atheist
people
believe
church
religious

Topic 2

pay
money
insurance
cost
company
year
price
bank

Topic 3

obama
party
republican
paul
people
government
right
ron

Topic 4

movie
watch
film
like
video
scene
read
episode

Topic 5

woman
man
cop
police
violence
gun
hit
crime

Topic 6

use
code
language
run
cpu
linux
function
work

Topic 7

funny
meme
fuck
dawg
joke
laugh
troll
like

Topic 8

wait
time
day
month
birthday
year
happen
point

Topic 9

reddit
link
comment
post
page
blog
spam
upvote

Topic 10

smoke
drug
marijuana
quit
cigarette
smoking
weed
pot
Top hashtags
#147
#217
#t16
#315
#410
#define7
#56
#include5
#64
#84
#94
#s4
#103
#united_states3
#0002
#172
#2262
#262
#342
#72

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 701.8K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
pushshift-reddit-2009-03
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
724,884
Nodes
422,293
Edges
324,106
Nodes are
user
Edges are
reply
Attributes
nodes have attributes; edges have no attributes
Text corpus
comment text
Languages
en
Collected
2009-03 (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, 89.7 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 — 2009-03 [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 — 2009-03. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7347.

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