ECHOExploratory Compendium of Humanity Online

Pushshift Reddit — 2013 (Annual)

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A Reddit (Pushshift archive, full year 2013) dataset of 341,781,560 comments across 12 months, collected by Jason Baumgartner via Pushshift.io Reddit API archive. Each record contains 82,521 subreddits, 205,381,699 reply edges across all months. Annual aggregate of all Pushshift Reddit comments for 2013 — 341,781,560 comments across 12 months and 82,521 subreddits.. Suitable for longitudinal Reddit analysis, annual growth trends, subreddit evolution, platform-scale engagement research.

Very large: 341.8M records. Working with all of it takes more than a laptop (tens of GB of memory or a disk-based graph database); a sample, or reading the files in a streaming way, is the usual way to start.

#Annual snapshot#Pushshift#Reply network#Subreddit

Cite this dataset at pushshift-reddit-2013.echo.directory

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Analytics

Data availability: Basic stats only — non-standard dataset format

  • Time-series of aggregate counts rather than individual records

Full text and graph analytics available in individual monthly entries pushshift-reddit-2013-01 through pushshift-reddit-2013-12.

341.8M
Total Comments (2013)
12
Months Covered
82.5K
Unique Subreddits
205.4M
Reply Edges
Comments per Month (2013)
1234.4M
1132.2M
1030.9M
0729.7M
0829.6M
0528M
0428M
0627.7M
0927.3M
0325.8M
0125.4M
0222.8M
Top Subreddits (2013)
  1. 1AskReddit40.2M
  2. 2funny11.9M
  3. 3pics9M
  4. 4AdviceAnimals8.7M
  5. 5gaming8M
  6. 6WTF7.7M
  7. 7leagueoflegends7.3M
  8. 8videos4.5M
  9. 9todayilearned4.2M
  10. 10nfl4.1M
  11. 11politics3.8M
  12. 12worldnews3.6M
  13. 13IAmA3.2M
  14. 14nba2.7M
  15. 15atheism2.6M

Record

Catalog key
pushshift-reddit-2013
Authors
Baumgartner, Jason; Zannettou, Savvas; Keegan, Brian; Squire, Megan; Blackburn, Jeremy
Year
2020
Source paper
The Pushshift Reddit Dataset
DOI / arXiv
10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7347
License
Unknown
Records
341,781,560
Languages
en
Collected
2013 (2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://files.pushshift.io/reddit/comments/ unverified
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 35.5 GB across 12 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

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}
}

@misc{baumgartner2020pushshift,
  title         = {The Pushshift Reddit Dataset},
  author        = {Baumgartner, Jason and Zannettou, Savvas and Keegan, Brian and Squire, Megan and Blackburn, Jeremy},
  year          = {2020},
  eprint        = {2001.08435},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Baumgartner, J., Zannettou, S., Keegan, B., Squire, M., & Blackburn, J. (2020). Pushshift Reddit — 2013 (Annual) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7347

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Baumgartner, Jason, et al. Pushshift Reddit — 2013 (Annual). 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7347.

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