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+# this is an example of loading and iterating over a single file, doing some processing along the way to export a resulting csv
+
+import zstandard
+import os
+import json
+from collections import defaultdict
+from datetime import datetime
+import logging.handlers
+
+
+log = logging.getLogger("bot")
+log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+log.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
+
+
+# this function handles decompressing the zst files
+def read_lines_zst(file_name):
+	with open(file_name, 'rb') as file_handle:
+		buffer = ''
+		reader = zstandard.ZstdDecompressor(max_window_size=2**31).stream_reader(file_handle)
+		while True:
+			chunk = reader.read(2**27).decode()
+			if not chunk:
+				break
+			lines = (buffer + chunk).split("\n")
+
+			for line in lines[:-1]:
+				yield line, file_handle.tell()
+
+			buffer = lines[-1]
+		reader.close()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+	# the path to the input comment file
+	input_path = r"\\MYCLOUDPR4100\Public\reddit\requests\wallstreetbets_comments.zst"
+	# the path to the output csv file of word counts
+	output_path = r"\\MYCLOUDPR4100\Public\reddit\wallstreetbets_counts.csv"
+	# skip everything before this date. The subreddit was created in 2012, so there's a lot of dates before it gets to the good stuff if you want to skip them
+	start_date = datetime.strptime("2020-01-01", '%Y-%m-%d')
+	# list of word phrases to search for. Make sure these are all lowercase
+	phrases = [
+		"diamond hands",
+		"sell",
+	]
+
+	# bunch of initialization stuff
+	word_counts = defaultdict(int)
+	file_lines = 0
+	file_bytes_processed = 0
+	created = None
+	bad_lines = 0
+	current_day = None
+	output_file = open(output_path, 'w')
+	output_file.write(f"Date,{(','.join(phrases))}\n")
+	input_size = os.stat(input_path).st_size
+	try:
+		# this is the main loop where we iterate over every single line in the zst file
+		for line, file_bytes_processed in read_lines_zst(input_path):
+			try:
+				# load the line into a json object
+				obj = json.loads(line)
+				# turn the created timestamp into a date object
+				created = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(int(obj['created_utc']))
+				# skip if we're before the start date defined above
+				if created >= start_date:
+					# if this is a different day than the previous line we looked at, save the word counts to the csv
+					if current_day != created.replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0):
+						# don't save the dates if this is the very first day, we're just starting
+						if current_day is not None:
+							# write out the date at the beginning of the line
+							output_file.write(f"{current_day.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')}")
+							# for each phrase in the list, look up the count associated with it and write it out
+							for phrase in phrases:
+								output_file.write(",")
+								output_file.write(str(word_counts[phrase]))
+							output_file.write("\n")
+							# reset the dictionary so we can start counting up for the new day
+							word_counts = defaultdict(int)
+						# update the variable to the new day, so we can then tell when we get to the next day
+						current_day = created.replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)
+
+					# get the lowercase of the object text
+					body_lower = obj['body'].lower()
+					# for each of the phrases in the list
+					for phrase in phrases:
+						# check if it's the text
+						if phrase in body_lower:
+							# and then add the object's score to the dict
+							word_counts[phrase] += obj['score']
+
+			# just in case there's corruption somewhere in the file
+			except (KeyError, json.JSONDecodeError) as err:
+				bad_lines += 1
+			file_lines += 1
+			if file_lines % 100000 == 0:
+				log.info(f"{created.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')} : {file_lines:,} : {bad_lines:,} : {(file_bytes_processed / input_size) * 100:.0f}%")
+	except Exception as err:
+		log.info(err)
+
+	# write out the last day
+	output_file.write(f"{current_day.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')}")
+	for phrase in phrases:
+		output_file.write(",")
+		output_file.write(str(word_counts[phrase]))
+	output_file.write("\n")
+
+	output_file.close()
+	log.info(f"Complete : {file_lines:,} : {bad_lines:,}")