# JosephLai241/URS

Universal Reddit Scraper - A comprehensive Reddit scraping/archival command-line tool.

Repository: https://github.com/JosephLai241/URS
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/urs
Homepage: https://josephlai241.github.io/URS/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: python, reddit, reddit-scraper, redditor, comments, json, command-line, osint-tool, data-science, data-analysis, subreddit, praw, livestream, trees, archiving, csv, scraper, wordcloud, pyo3, rust
Last push: 2026-07-11T20:53:25+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 64/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 92, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2723, "days_push": 53, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1020, forks 124 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:15.549280+00:00)

## What it is
URS (Universal Reddit Scraper) is a comprehensive command-line tool written in Python (with Rust components) for scraping and archiving Reddit data. It supports scraping subreddits, redditors, submission comments, livestreams, and exporting results to JSON or CSV.

## Use cases
- scrape posts from a subreddit
- archive reddit comments to csv
- download a redditor's submission history
- scrape comments from a reddit submission
- monitor a subreddit livestream of new posts
- generate a wordcloud from a reddit thread
- collect reddit data for osint analysis

## When to choose
- you need a ready-made CLI for bulk Reddit data collection and archival
- you want JSON/CSV exports of subreddit, redditor, or comment data without writing your own PRAW scripts
- you need livestream monitoring or wordcloud generation from Reddit content

## When to avoid
- you need a hosted service or GUI rather than a command-line tool
- you want real-time streaming at scale or want to avoid Reddit API rate limits
- your target platform is not Reddit

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, cli, data-science, analytics
- domain: social-media, crawlers, data-science, osint
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: reddit, praw, scraper, archiving, wordcloud, csv, rust

## Member repositories
- JosephLai241/URS (main) score 64

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:15.549280+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:08:53.937270+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/JosephLai241/URS (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:15.549280+00:00, sha 1efd6a264515)
  - homepage: https://josephlai241.github.io/URS/ (fetched 2026-08-29T13:09:20.728010+00:00, sha 54313197fcc2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.