reddit-user-persona-generator

https://github.com/tanishachauhan1/reddit-user-persona-generator

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Host: GitHub
Owner: TanishaChauhan1
Language: Python
Default Branch: main
Size: 10.7 KB

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Created 8 months ago · Last pushed 8 months ago

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🧠 Reddit User Persona Generator

This project scrapes a Reddit user's posts and comments to generate a detailed User Persona using OpenAI's GPT models.

📌 Features

✅ Scrapes up to 50 posts and comments from any Reddit user's public profile
🤖 Uses OpenAI GPT-3.5/GPT-4 to analyze and generate a persona
📄 Outputs a text file summarizing:

Interests
Personality traits
Writing style
Beliefs and quirks
📝 Cites specific posts/comments for each trait

🗂️ Repository Structure

reddit-persona-assignment/ │ ├── generatepersona.py # Main script to run the pipeline
├── redditapi.py # Reddit API client (PRAW)
├── contentscraper.py # Scrapes submissions & comments
├── personabuilder.py # Sends content to OpenAI for persona generation
├── utils.py # File saving, utilities
├── .env # Stores Reddit and OpenAI API keys
├── output/ # Stores generated persona text files

🔧 Setup Instructions

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/reddit-persona-assignment.git cd reddit-persona-assignment

2. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Create a .env file

Create a .env file in the root directory:

REDDITCLIENTID=yourredditclientid
REDDITCLIENTSECRET=yourredditclientsecret
REDDITUSERAGENT=personaextractor
OPENAIAPIKEY=youropenaiapikey

🧪 How to Run

python generatepersona.py <redditusername>

Example: python generate_persona.py kojied

📁 Output

A file like output/kojied_persona.txt will be generated containing:

Interests

Personality Traits

Writing Style

Beliefs/Values

Citations: Each point references the post/comment it was derived from.

🛠️ Technologies Used

Python 3.10+
PRAW – Reddit API wrapper
OpenAI Python SDK
dotenv, tqdm

🚨 Notes

⚠️ Make sure you don’t exceed OpenAI free tier limits. You may get:

"You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details."

This script only works with public Reddit profiles.

Owner

Login: TanishaChauhan1
Kind: user

Repositories: 1
Profile: https://github.com/TanishaChauhan1

Citation (citations_formatter.py)

from tqdm import tqdm

def collect_user_content(reddit, username, max_items=50):
    user = reddit.redditor(username)
    posts = []
    comments = []

    for submission in tqdm(user.submissions.new(limit=max_items), desc="Fetching posts"):
        posts.append(f"Post Title: {submission.title}\nContent: {submission.selftext}\n")

    for comment in tqdm(user.comments.new(limit=max_items), desc="Fetching comments"):
        comments.append(f"Comment: {comment.body} (in r/{comment.subreddit})\n")

    return "\n".join(posts + comments)

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