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Researchers can use PRAW as well. Additionally, Reddit post outlining API changes encourages researchers to contact Reddit to find a viable path forward.
Comment by Btan21 at 01/05/2023 at 18:38 UTC
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Agreed. But the official Reddit API generally has slower responses in my experience.
Comment by grejty at 01/05/2023 at 18:41 UTC
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I contacted them explained my situation, my tool, and that its for my Bachelor. They replied:
Thanks for contacting us! Your request has been received and we’re in the process of gathering information from everyone to help shape our API roadmap and decision-making. We’ll follow up in the next couple of weeks - thank you for your patience
Now they just take down pushshift access lol
Comment by Sparkybear at 02/05/2023 at 19:17 UTC
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PRAW kinda sucks for iterating through comments. Which is important because comments often contain a lot more information than the post itself and are much more valuable from an analysis standpoint.
In my case, to actually get the data we needed, we had to use a combination of PRAW, PushShift, and Reddit API directly. Otherwise we would inevitably come out with wildly varying numbers of comments, especially on larger threads (returning as few as 100 out of 10,000).
Comment by criticool-realism at 01/05/2023 at 23:22 UTC
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This is true, and I did reach out. Unfortunately, they've been unresponsive. For academics who depend on grant funding and have extant research projects using Reddit data, this creates a big problem if they are expecting to make money charging for research use.
Comment by lbrtrl at 04/05/2023 at 04:04 UTC
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Moving from a permissionless model to permission based access is huge. It allows reddit to control what sort of research gets published.
Comment by lowkeyf1sh at 15/06/2023 at 23:43 UTC
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Are there any alternatives or is pushshift the only way to view deleted reddit content?