[Air-L] Question about citing specific Reddit pages

Taylor, Nicholas A. ntay at loc.gov
Mon Feb 4 05:03:31 PST 2013


Hi Wayne, Denice, Reddit doesn't display the time of the post, but a full date/timestamp is available in the source code. Some browsers and browser add-ons have an "Inspect Element" feature available via the right-click/option menu. You can right-click on the visible, imprecise time of the post (e.g., "2 days ago"), select "Inspect Element", and look for the date/timestamp inside a set of <time></time> tags. Alternatively, you can view the entire page source and search for a distinctive keyword (e.g., username) that appears nearby the comment of interest.

best,
Nicholas

Nicholas Taylor
Data Specialist
Library of Congress Web Archiving
http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/
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