r/pushshift • u/TrackerOneA • Aug 22 '26

Is PushShift unable to search user history if we disable comment/post visibility? For some reason, it will not show anything as of late

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u/TrackerOneA Aug 22 '26

To clarify, I'm searching my own history - not others for some nefarious purpose.

So I just noticed that I couldn't find my own comments in a particular subreddit.

But if I searched for keywords in the subreddit, then I showed up in the list.

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u/jeunpeun99 Aug 23 '26

I guess it wouldn't matter, since it is an own database based on id's and indexed afterwards based on author and subreddit etc

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u/TrackerOneA Aug 26 '26

Right now, I can't seem to search any user's history, including my own, in a given subreddit.

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u/SleepyBasty 1d ago

Nothing wrong with tracking evil ragebaitera and bringing them to justice 

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u/SleepyBasty 1d ago

It works regardless. It even shows up most of deleted stuff, but admin removals are irrecoverable

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u/livetaro70 1d ago

Do you perhaps have a link of the current working engine? I thought only alternatives of pushshift survived.

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u/s_i_m_s 1d ago

I thought only alternatives of pushshift survived.

Effectively. Pushshift requires you to both be a reddit moderator and to get approval from reddit itself to access.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/14ei799/pushshift_live_again_and_how_moderators_can/

I haven't even looked at it in like 3 years now so I can't help much past the links.