{"id":36722,"date":"2025-11-24T21:27:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/i-scraped-and-cleaned-50000-career-discussion-threads-from-r-askengineers-and-r-engineeringstudents-here-is-the-tool-i-used\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:27:18","slug":"i-scraped-and-cleaned-50000-career-discussion-threads-from-r-askengineers-and-r-engineeringstudents-here-is-the-tool-i-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/i-scraped-and-cleaned-50000-career-discussion-threads-from-r-askengineers-and-r-engineeringstudents-here-is-the-tool-i-used\/","title":{"rendered":"I Scraped And Cleaned 50,000+ Career Discussion Threads From R\/AskEngineers And R\/EngineeringStudents. Here Is The Tool I Used."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find a good dataset that mapped the &#8220;Skills Gap&#8221; between university and industry, so I built a local scraper to create one.<\/p>\n<p>The Data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Volume: ~52,000 threads.<\/li>\n<li>Fields: Title, Body, Top Comments, Sentiment.<\/li>\n<li>Focus: Keywords relating to &#8220;Exams&#8221; vs &#8220;Workplace Tools&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I built the extractor (ORION) to run locally so I wouldn&#8217;t get IP banned. It uses requests and smart rate-limiting.<\/p>\n<p>You can grab the tool and the extraction logic here: <a href=\"https:\/\/mrweeb0.github.io\/ORION-tool-showcase\/\">https:\/\/mrweeb0.github.io\/ORION-tool-showcase\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feel free to fork it if you want to scrape other career subreddits (like Nursing or CS).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/No-Associate-6068\"> \/u\/No-Associate-6068 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1p5qxx4\/i_scraped_and_cleaned_50000_career_discussion\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1p5qxx4\/i_scraped_and_cleaned_50000_career_discussion\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-36722 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='36722' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-36722 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-36722 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t find a good dataset that mapped the &#8220;Skills Gap&#8221; between university and industry, so I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}