🧠 Reddit User Persona Generator

This project scrapes Reddit user activity and uses Google Gemini (LLM) to generate rich, citation-backed user personas — ideal for research, UX design, and AI applications.

📌 Task Objective (per BeyondChats)

Build a script that:

Takes a Reddit user profile URL as input

Scrapes posts and comments

Generates a qualitative user persona

Cites exact comments/posts for each personality trait

Outputs everything in a .txt file

💡 Tech Stack

Python

praw (Reddit API)

google-generativeai (Gemini API)

python-dotenv for secure API key handling

🚀 How to Run

🔐 Step 1: Add API Keys

Create a .env file in the project root:

REDDIT_CLIENT_ID=your_reddit_client_id
REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET=your_reddit_client_secret
REDDIT_USER_AGENT=script:PersonaBuilder:v1.0 (by /u/your_reddit_username)
GEMINI_API_KEY=your_gemini_api_key

🔗 Get your API keys here:

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps

Gemini: https://makersuite.google.com/app

⚙️ Step 2: Install Requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

🧠 Step 3: Run the Script

python persona_generator.py https://www.reddit.com/user/kojied/

Outputs will be saved to the personas/ folder.

📂 Project Structure

reddit-persona-generator/
├── persona_generator.py       # Main script
├── reddit_scraper.py          # PRAW-based Reddit scraper
├── persona_builder.py         # Gemini persona generation logic
├── utils.py                   # Helpers: saving, cleaning, formatting
├── personas/                  # Output .txt files
│   ├── kojied_persona.txt
│   └── Hungry-Move-6603_persona.txt
├── sample_data/               # Optional raw scraped data (JSON)
├── requirements.txt
├── .env                       # [NOT included in repo]
├── .gitignore
└── README.md

📝 Sample Outputs

Check the following files under /personas/:

kojied_persona.txt

Hungry-Move-6603_persona.txt

Each contains:

Interests

Personality traits

Writing style

Values

Cited quotes with Reddit URLs

📜 Notes

Follows PEP-8 coding style

Modular code (scraper, builder, utils separated)

Works with free-tier Gemini & Reddit API keys

Does not push .env (uses .gitignore)

✨ Created For

BeyondChats – Generative AI Engineer Internship Assignment Developed by Chetan Sonawane

🔒 Disclaimer

This project only uses public Reddit data. No login, posting, or scraping of private content is performed.