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Reddit Data API Update: Changes to Pushshift Access

by syrrim on 5/1/23, 6:14 PM with 16 comments

  • by edude03 on 5/1/23, 6:23 PM

    Well that's not surprising, PushShift is probably the biggest / most common way to get realtime access to reddit.

    API violations aside, pushshift would have allowed developers to side step the reddit api restrictions anyway so I don't know how this relationship could have continued.

  • by tivert on 5/1/23, 7:50 PM

    So does this mean no more looking at deleted comments?

    It's been awhile since I used one, but there were a bunch of sites that would "undelete" reddit comments. Which is super helpful because redditors seem to have a habit of retroactively deleting everything they posted, and deleted comments sometimes answer some question you're trying to figure out (e.g. (someone asks my question) -> [deleted comment] -> thanks! that fixed it!).

  • by Mindwipe on 5/1/23, 6:27 PM

    The Reddit API team are so absolutely awful at communication or thinking about the consequences of their actions. The next ninety days are going to be a catastrophe.

  • by workethics on 5/1/23, 8:50 PM

    This is probably going to be Reddit's Digg moment for me. The sad thing is there isn't really a suitable replacement available. HN is the closest experience to early Reddit and I wouldn't be surprised if the site's traffic ramps up noticeably over the next couple months.

  • by nunez on 5/1/23, 10:49 PM

    damn this LITERALLY fucked up a talk I've been creating that I'm giving in July.

    I was going to use Pushshift to query Reddit posts with "devops" and "agile" in same body to talk about the top five things "DevOps people" hate about Agile and how Agilistas can fix them.

    I'm also using Algolia to do the same, but for HN.

    I made the code and tests are passing for both clients, but life got in the way and I haven't integrated them yet.

    Damn.

    I kind of figured that Pushshift wouldn't survive Reddit's API changes, but sucks that this happened so suddenly.

    This is gonna fuck over a lot of people.

  • by tmaly on 5/5/23, 4:34 AM

    Reading through these comments, I can’t help but think Mastodon would be the solution for Reddit and not the solution for Twitter.

  • by mdaniel on 5/1/23, 7:34 PM

    there was a thread about RedReader earlier that may interest this same audience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35767700