REDDIT USER PERSONA GENERATOR

A Python tool that analyzes a Reddit user's public activity (posts and comments) to generate a psychological and behavioral persona report.

♦️ PROJECT OVERVIEW

This script uses the Reddit API to collect and analyze a user’s posts and comments. It extracts insights such as:

• Top interests based on subreddit activity
• Personality traits (analytical, emotional, helpful, etc.)
• Communication style and sentiment
• Goals and frustrations (with direct citations)
• Behavior patterns like posting frequency, humor, opinions, etc.

The output is a clean .txt report that’s ideal for user research, academic analysis, or persona generation.

♦️ USE CASES

• Product teams doing user research
• Students or professionals doing behavior analysis
• Content strategists or UX researchers
• Developers experimenting with natural language analysis

♦️ TECH STACK

• Python (Core logic)
• PRAW (Python Reddit API Wrapper)
• Regex (Pattern matching and extraction)
• datetime, collections (Data formatting and processing)

♦️ FEATURES

• Clean up markdown, links, and Reddit formatting
• Detect subreddit interests and categorize them
• Analyze user behavior (active hours, question use, debates)
• Infer personality using text pattern recognition
• Extract goals and frustrations from text
• Save result as a local .txt report

♦️ REQUIREMENTS

• Python 3.8 or higher
• Reddit API credentials (client ID, secret)

To install dependencies: pip install praw

♦️ HOW TO USE

1. Clone the project: git clone : https://github.com/Ashex360/reddit_persona_generator.git

2. Create a Reddit script app: Go to https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps and create a script app to get credentials.

3. Edit the script and insert your Reddit API keys: client_id='your_client_id' client_secret='your_client_secret' user_agent='any_name_you_like'

4. Run the script: python reddit_persona_generator.py

5. Enter a Reddit username (or full profile URL) when prompted.

6. The script will generate a detailed persona and save it as: [username]_persona.txt

♦️ SAMPLE OUTPUT (snippet)

REDDIT USER PERSONA: U/SPEZ

Account Age: 16 years, 3 months Karma: 42,000 (comment) | 10,000 (post) Premium Member: No Moderator: Yes

Top Interests:

• Technology: programming, linux
• Movies: marvel, television

Personality Traits:

• Traits: analytical, curious, opinionated
• Communication Style: detailed
• Sentiment: positive

Goals:

• I want to understand how Linux works at the kernel level.

Frustrations:

• It's frustrating that Apple locks everything down.

♦️WHAT I LEARNED

• How to use Reddit API securely
• Working with real-time text data and regex
• Generating human-like insights from user behavior
• Writing modular and clean Python code for practical use cases

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♦️ FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS

• Export report as PDF
• Add visualization (matplotlib/bar charts of subreddit activity)
• Add sentiment scoring using NLP tools
• Build a web interface with Streamlit or Flask

♦️ ABOUT ME

Hi, I’m Ashish Sarda, a student of Electronics & Computer Engineering. I love solving real-world problems with smart backend logic, and this project reflects my interest in combining psychology with technology.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashish-sarda-5051982a3/ GitHub: https://github.com/Ashex360

LICENSE

MIT License 📌 Submission Note

This project was developed as part of the Generative AI Internship Assignment by BeyondChats.
The goal was to analyze Reddit profiles and extract meaningful user personas using logic, pattern detection, and NLP.

If you'd like to test the code on your own Reddit username, please follow the instructions above.

Thank you!