Published August 7, 2025 | Version v1.0.0
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RedScrap: Python Tool for Netnographic Data Collection

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Faculty of Pharmacy, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
  • 2. ROR icon Universiti Teknologi MARA

Description

This is the first stable release of RedScrap, a lightweight and customizable Python tool designed for netnographic research using Reddit data.

RedScrap allows researchers to extract Reddit comments and metadata from posts and subreddits, with filtering options by keyword, post type, and date range. It supports both command-line and graphical user interface (GUI) modes, and outputs data in structured formats (CSV or JSON) suitable for qualitative analysis.

This release (v1.0.0) includes:

  • CLI and GUI interfaces

  • Support for subreddit and post-level scraping

  • Filtering by keyword and date range

  • Export to CSV or JSON

  • Basic error handling and documentation

Developed as part of a PhD research project at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), this version was submitted to the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) for peer review and citation.

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Additional details

Related works

Is supplement to
Software: https://github.com/saprimad/RedScrap/tree/v1.0.0 (URL)

Dates

Other
2025-10-07
Publication date

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/saprimad/RedScrap
Programming language
Python
Development Status
Active

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