ivan-rivera/RedditExtractor

Is there a way to sort by 'Hot'?

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There's options for 'comments' and 'new' and also a hidden 'relevance.' But none of these actually show what a reader sees when visiting a subreddit - they see 'Hot' by default.

I'm also confused as to how the function determines what urls to get:
Example: r/cryptocurrency frontpage currently has ~20 posts with between 10 and 150ish comments.

Reddit.cc3 <- reddit_urls(subreddit='CryptoCurrency', page_threshold = 100, cn_threshold = 10, sort_by='comments')

  • this only finds THREE posts with over 10 comments

Reddit.cc2 <- reddit_urls(subreddit='cryptocurrency', page_threshold = 30, cn_threshold = 1, sort_by='comments')

  • this only finds 17 posts with atleast 1 comment!

No of these are accurate, unless the package is making undocumented decisions on what to return.

Also I'm not sure what 'relevance' is measuring.

Perhaps you got rate limited by not setting a rate_limit over 2 seconds. The vast majority of posts are orphans, because the majority of redditors posting things are spammers.

Yes, you can now sort by "hot", this is fixed in version 3.0.0