How is everyone! It has been a long time but I am back and happy to see everyone! Wow 15 years flys by. Anyone still on here from the 2002 era?
Sure! I am primarily a data scientist with an emphasis on big data (ingest, archival and search). I currently run a search API for Reddit comments and submissions and have monthly dumps of all Reddit comments and submissions. I have extensive experience in cataloging and making data easily available via search. I am just getting back into trading and would like to create some cool data services for traders down the road. If you are interested in using the search API to find social media comments related to trading, let me know and I'll forward to you the API documentation. It is free for non-profit use and open to the public.
I'd be interested to check it out (tough I am for profit) - looking at social sentiment is on my to-do list.
Sorry, I should clarify -- you can use the data however you want. I just meant that if someone wanted to design a service around the API, I would want to talk with them first. The API documentation is here: https://github.com/pushshift/api/blob/master/README.md Currently, the system can search all public comments and submissions on Reddit and it ingests data in near real-time (a second or two delay). For instance, if you wanted to search for comments with the terms AMD and stock, you would make a call like this: https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/search/comment/?q=amd+stock If you wanted to search for the exact phrase "amd stock": https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/search/comment/?q="amd stock" The API also can do aggregations. The Elasticsearch back-end is also available directly if you know how to make ES queries and want to run more complicated searches.
Thanks for sharing, and I wish you well, but you should be aware that ship has sailed. For the past several years, everyone and his brother was promoting social-media-based strategies, products and funds. If anything, the clamor had died down, due to limited profitability.