Reddit HTML Thread Archive
A Reddit (r/funny, r/pics, r/gifs and other popular subreddits) dataset of 132,214 Reddit posts across 837 subreddits with full comment threads, collected by Web scraper collecting top Reddit posts circa 2012. Each record contains post ID, subreddit, post title, upvotes, downvotes, submission timestamp, and full comment text for each thread. Complete HTML snapshots of 132,214 Reddit threads from ~2012, preserving the full discussion including post content, comment trees, and engagement metrics across 837 subreddits.. Suitable for community detection, Reddit discussion analysis, social engagement modeling, comment thread structure, subreddit community behavior.
Cite this dataset at
reddit-html.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 133,051 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
reddit-html- Authors
- Lakkaraju, Himabindu; McAuley, Julian; Leskovec, Jure
- Year
- 2013
- Source paper
- What's in a Name? Understanding the Interplay between Titles, Content, and Communities in Social Media
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1609/icwsm.v7i1.14408
- License
- Academic research use — Reddit content subject to Reddit Terms of Service (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 133,051
- Nodes
- 133,051
- Edges
- 132,214 (directed)
- Nodes are
- subreddit / post
- Edges are
- post membership
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Text corpus
- post title and comment text
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2008-07 to 2013-01 (2000s, 2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://snap.stanford.edu/data/ link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 1.8 GB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
What's in a Name? Understanding the Interplay between Titles, Content, and Communities in Social Media
H. Lakkaraju, Julian McAuley, J. Leskovec
Journal Article · International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2013
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-22.
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}
}
@article{Lakkaraju_2021,
title = {What’s in a Name? Understanding the Interplay between Titles, Content, and Communities in Social Media},
volume = {7},
issn = {2162-3449},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v7i1.14408},
doi = {10.1609/icwsm.v7i1.14408},
number = {1},
journal = {Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
publisher = {Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
author = {Lakkaraju, Himabindu and McAuley, Julian and Leskovec, Jure},
year = {2021},
month = Aug,
pages = {311–320}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Lakkaraju, H., McAuley, J., & Leskovec, J. (2013). Reddit HTML Thread Archive [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v7i1.14408
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Lakkaraju, Himabindu, et al. Reddit HTML Thread Archive. 2013, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v7i1.14408.