Please send all requests to make a Most-Used Words (MUW) cloud to http://www.reddit.com/r/MUWs/
Feel free to post the MUWs you've made there, too.
Copyright 2013 Randal S. Olson.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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You must first install the Python library if you do not have that already. Preferably, use the Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) for an easy install.
Next, you can install this package. Enter the following command into the terminal:
easy_install redditanalysis
You may need to put sudo in front of the above command if your system
requires root access.
If you want to install the lastest development version from github first clone the package:
git clone https://github.com/rhiever/reddit-analysis.git
change into the reddit-analysis directory:
cd reddit-analysis
then run the update script:
python setup.py install
redditanalysis/words/common-words.txt is a data file containing a list of words
that should be considered common. Note that this list is not final and is
constantly changing.
redditanalysis/words/dict-words.txt is a data file containing a list of words
from a dictionary. It is only recommended to use this file (with the -x option)
if you want word_freqs to pick out very uncommon words.
Once installed, run the following on your command line to produce a usage message:
word_freqs --help
This command will detail all of the command line options and arguments for the
word_freqs.
To count the most-used words for a subreddit over the last month, enter the following command:
word_freqs YOUR-USERNAME /r/SUBREDDIT
Similarly, for a reddit user:
word_freqs YOUR-USERNAME /u/REDDITOR
where YOUR-USERNAME is your reddit username and SUBREDDIT / REDDITOR is
the subreddit / redditor you want to make the MUW cloud for. You
must provide both arguments for the script to work properly.
Why is your username required? Simply because it will be used as the user-agent when making the Reddit API request. Reddit asks its API users to use something unique as the user-agent and recomends to use the users username.
Once the script completes, it will create a file called subreddit-SUBREDDIT.csv (or
user-REDDITOR.csv) to the directory you ran it in. This file contains all of
the commonly-used words from the subreddit / redditor you specified in the
frequencies they were used.
To make a MUW cloud out of the words, copy all of the words into http://www.wordle.net/compose and click the Go button. Ta-da, you're done!
reddit-analysis supports multiprocess PRAW. This allows you to run multiple instances
of reddit-analysis simultaneously and not risk getting banned for overusing the reddit API.
To enable multiprocess PRAW in reddit-analysis, add the -u flag.
See the PRAW documentation for more information.