reddit_flare_detector.

The project predicts the flairs of posts on india subreddit.

Motivation

Analysing and predicting flairs for reddit posts on india subreddit.

Tech/framework used

Built with

• Python
• Praw
• pushshift api
• Javascript

Features

Dyanamic webpage! works with Ajax thus don't have to reload the page :D

Installation

do pip install -r requirements.txt

Tests

just get any link of a post from https://www.reddit.com/r/india with flair among Science/Technology, Business/finance, political, non-political, [R]eddiquette, AskIndia paste the url in predict tab and press enter, and wait for the magic :D

How to use?

For training model:

• just clone the repo.
• Set up a python 3 virtual environment.
• download the requirements by pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• open you terminal and run main.py
• it gets a set of 10000 new posts from reddit, and gets all the information about the posts then cleans the data, the final cleaned data is stored in the file train.json
• then it starts training on that data and saves the trained model as model.pkl

  For using the website

• Run app.py on the terminal
• open your browser,on the link shown in your terminal

Directory Structure:

├── app.py
├── post_info.py
├── main.py
├── get_ids.py
├── get_info.py
├── normalise_data.py
├── cleaning_data.py
├── train.py
├── Templates
│   ├── base.html
│   ├── index.html
│   ├── predict.html
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├── Static 
|    ├── style.css
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├── nltk.txt
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├── test.json
├── full_data.json
├── id.json
├── README.md
├── package.json
└── .gitignore



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