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View submission: [Updated] Who runs /r/Holocaust? Each line represents a moderator overlap. [OC]
I can help you with that. Here's how you would go about it.
1.
Use the api like so: http://api.reddit.com/r/worldnews/about/moderators
2.
Convert the JSON result set to human readable name list with a tool like this https://json-csv.com/
3. Save the CSV file and extract the data in the name column.
If that's helpful but you need to do this on a large scale, send me a PM and I'd be happy to help write something.
EDIT: I looked on GitHub and found this project: https://github.com/dlew/reddit-mods
Comment by Splendor78 at 23/07/2014 at 01:16 UTC
118 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Just thinking out loud now...it might be neat to take a data set like the top 100 subreddits, capture the list of all the mods for each sub, and then see how they're related. Which subs have the most mods in common, etc.
Comment by cobrophy at 23/07/2014 at 11:34 UTC
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Is it possible to go through the api to find what subreddits a user moderates. It's on their profile.
I think taking the list of moderators and seeing what else they moderate is going to be more efficient than trying to index the moderators for every subreddit.
Comment by genitaliban at 23/07/2014 at 17:30 UTC
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Why save it as CSV? JSON is really easy to parse, and any modern programming language will have a library to do so. It's much easier to analyze it that way.
Comment by [deleted] at 23/07/2014 at 14:23 UTC
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Was just going to say I'd code this, but it looks like you've found it.