Reddit Data API Update: Changes to Pushshift Access

edude03 3 years ago |

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.

tivert 3 years ago |

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!).

arprocter 3 years ago | |

you can change a reddit URL to reveddit.com and it works pretty well (deleted comments are brown)

You can also search your own username and see what has been 'removed' by mods - much easier than signing out of your account and trying to find content that isn't there

sprremix 3 years ago | | |

reveddit is precisely an example of one of those sites which uses Pushshift to display removed content

arprocter 3 years ago | | |

I thought as much

Presumably this will also break Camas search

nunez 3 years ago | |

i presume yes for anything before the cutoff date

Mindwipe 3 years ago |

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.

murphyslab 3 years ago | |

It's been frustrating to read how Reddit's API changes are affecting the unofficial mobile apps for Reddit. Seriously has me questioning whether I want to continue using the platform at all. The developer for Apollo posted a lengthy thread 12 days ago about how this is going to affect those apps:

https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...

As many users have noted, this is in many ways a betrayal, of both users and developers, since these other apps were the first to provide mobile functionality for Reddit.

z500 3 years ago | | |

Not to mention they all do it better than the official app.

murphyslab 3 years ago | | |

I've been using RIF for probably 10 years. I'd sooner browse Old Reddit on mobile than use the official app. Reddit Inc has been trying to emulate various trends, constantly running after leaders like TikTok. It feels chaotic and bloated. But those older unofficial apps have remained focused on the core, historic functionality of Reddit.

thewataccount 3 years ago | | |

> I'd sooner browse Old Reddit on mobile than use the official app

Yeah, and they know it. They recently disabled i.reddit, I expect it won't be long until old.reddit.com get's disabled too.

workethics 3 years ago |

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.

anaganisk 3 years ago | |

Not gonna happen, HN is not even a replacement of r/technology. And this site can't handle comment threads after a certain limit. So not really.

nunez 3 years ago |

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.

tmaly 3 years ago |

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

mdaniel 3 years ago |

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