Camas reddit-search "has been disabled by GitHub Staff due to a violation of GitHub's Terms of Service."

created by f_k_a_g_n on 02/05/2022 at 16:48 UTC

260 upvotes, 31 top-level comments (showing 25)

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Comment by s_i_m_s at 02/05/2022 at 18:11 UTC*

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

https://camas.unddit.com/

Or https://redditsearchtool.com/[1] which is a multi service front end, you'll need to select the pushshift api in the api menu if you want it to work, although selecting reddit will also work for some queries.

1: https://redditsearchtool.com/

Or https://bmai.dev/reddit/[2] thanks u/LucretiusCarus for the link.

2: https://bmai.dev/reddit/

Or https://adhesivecheese.github.io/chearch/[3] from u/adhesiveCheese[4]

3: https://adhesivecheese.github.io/chearch/

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/ugtz37/camas_redditsearch_has_been_disabled_by_github/i77wd8y/

And to mirror /u/Watchful1's[5] comment

5: https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/ugtz37/camas_redditsearch_has_been_disabled_by_github/i71qejj/

Just to note for anyone confused, camas was a third party site created by someone else that used the pushshift api. It's not associated with pushshift itself.

Comment by Beginning_Expert8968 at 02/05/2022 at 22:03 UTC

31 upvotes, 10 direct replies

The actual reason is pretty boring.

I ignored this email a few days ago

Hello,

I'm reaching out on behalf of the GitHub Trust & Safety Team to let you know we received a report that one of your repositories contains private information that was posted without consent. Specifically, the following content was reported:

https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/[1]

https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/#%7B%22subreddit%22:%22REDACTED%22,%22searchFor%22:1,%22resultSize%22:100,%22query%22:%2REDACTED%22%7D[2]

https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/#%7B%22subreddit%22:%22REDACTED%22,%22searchFor%22:1,%22resultSize%22:100,%22query%22:%22REDACTED%22%7D[3]

1: https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/

2: https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/#%7B%22subreddit%22:%22REDACTED%22,%22searchFor%22:1,%22resultSize%22:100,%22query%22:%2REDACTED%22%7D

3: https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/#%7B%22subreddit%22:%22REDACTED%22,%22searchFor%22:1,%22resultSize%22:100,%22query%22:%22REDACTED%22%7D

In order to remove the content in question, we ask that you refer to the following article for help:

https://docs.github.com/articles/remove-sensitive-data

Please make sure to follow those instructions carefully, as simply deleting the content will not remove it completely from the repository commit history.

Alternately, you may simply want to switch the repository to private by following the instructions found here:

https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/setting-repository-visibility#making-a-repository-private

If these changes are not made within 3 business days, we will continue our review of the complaint. We may need to disable your repository at that time in order to protect the owner of private information that has been posted in violation of our Acceptable Use Policies.

If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback regarding this notice, please let us know as soon as possible.

Regards,

GitHub Trust & Safety

so they got their best and brightest on it

Hi,

Access to the camas/reddit-search repository has been disabled by GitHub Staff as a result of a sensitive data removal request. You may contact GitHub Support for more information or to appeal this decision:

https://github.com/contact

Read more about GitHub's Sensitive Data Removal Policy here:

https://docs.github.com/articles/github-sensitive-data-removal-policy

Regards,

GitHub Trust & Safety Team

Have emailed back, we'll see what happens.

Comment by Watchful1 at 02/05/2022 at 16:54 UTC

19 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Just to note for anyone confused, camas was a third party site created by someone else that used the pushshift api. It's not associated with pushshift itself.

Comment by Xyex at 02/05/2022 at 20:36 UTC

13 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Hope it gets back up eventually. I use it frequently to find my old comments again, since Reddit's search tool is an absolute joke.

Comment by bwburke94 at 02/05/2022 at 17:55 UTC

11 upvotes, 2 direct replies

How would it have violated Github's ToS? Is this a privacy issue?

Comment by Pierruno at 04/05/2022 at 07:09 UTC

11 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Working alternatives:

https://adhesivecheese.github.io/chearch/[1][2]

1: https://adhesivecheese.github.io/chearch/

2: https://adhesivecheese.github.io/chearch/

https://camas.unddit.com/[3][4]

3: https://camas.unddit.com/

4: https://camas.unddit.com/

https://redditsearchtool.com/[5][6]

5: https://redditsearchtool.com/

6: https://redditsearchtool.com/

https://bmai.dev/reddit/[7][8]

7: https://bmai.dev/reddit/

8: https://bmai.dev/reddit/

Comment by f_k_a_g_n at 02/05/2022 at 16:48 UTC

8 upvotes, 0 direct replies

For those trying to access https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/

Comment by seitaer13 at 02/05/2022 at 17:15 UTC

8 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Shame, I could actually search comments with that one.

Comment by smolpastryx at 02/05/2022 at 17:37 UTC

8 upvotes, 1 direct replies

redditcommentsearch.com

Comment by lettuce_field_theory at 02/05/2022 at 17:03 UTC

7 upvotes, 1 direct replies

anyone cloned that repo?

Comment by ittu at 02/05/2022 at 18:00 UTC

8 upvotes, 1 direct replies

http://web.archive.org/web/20220409160400/https://github.com/camas/reddit-search/

Comment by Olnium at 02/05/2022 at 22:15 UTC*

7 upvotes, 3 direct replies

For anyone like me that wants to save a local copy but is having trouble saving the source directly from the Wayback Machine, I got you.

When you save a local copy directly from the Wayback Machine, the source code contains links that mean queries still get routed through the Wayback Machine and in my case, caused errors, although I could still view comments and posts by clicking on the API link and reading them in plain text directly from Pushshift. For me that's not a good solution, so I looked around and found something much better. Just follow these steps:

1. Goto https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/[1] and install the latest build of Ruby with Devkit. Install it with all additional options selected.

1: https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/

2. From your start menu, select "Start Command Prompt With Ruby". This will bring up a CMD window.

In the CMD window, type "gem install wayback_machine_downloader" (no quotes). This will install a gem package as explained here: https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader

4. Once the downloader is installed, type in the CMD window "wayback_machine_downloader https://camas.github.io/reddit-search[2]" (no quotes). This will download the original website source code to a folder named "websites" in your user directory.

2: https://camas.github.io/reddit-search

5. In that folder, double click on index.html and you have a locally hosted version of Reddit Search.

If you get stuck, read the documentation for the Ruby Gem here: https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader

Edit: Refined base URL to avoid downloading extraneous data.

Comment by smolpastryx at 02/05/2022 at 17:13 UTC

4 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Anyone knows any other way to search for reddit posts?

Comment by ittu at 02/05/2022 at 17:56 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

how can I run my own instance?

Comment by ittu at 02/05/2022 at 18:03 UTC

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

can this be rehosted to gitlab?

Comment by HQuasar at 02/05/2022 at 21:07 UTC

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Screw GitHub. Camas is incredibly useful and versatile. Hope it can rehost quickly.

Comment by olliegw at 02/05/2022 at 21:43 UTC

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Great, as an armchair detective this was one of the most important tools in my arsenal, hoping they will rehost

Comment by Stuck_In_the_Matrix at 03/05/2022 at 16:09 UTC

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Pinning this because important.

Comment by Techno_Bacon at 02/05/2022 at 19:16 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

That's a real shame. It was the only comment searcher that actually worked for me.

Comment by xlicer at 02/05/2022 at 19:49 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I'm going to hope this is just temporally.

Comment by ObsidianDreamsRedux at 03/05/2022 at 17:32 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Luckily I had it open in a tab before it was disabled. I was able to save it as "Web Page, complete" and it works fine when opened locally.

Comment by adhesiveCheese at 03/05/2022 at 05:23 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

...well damn, seeing all these mirrors makes me feel really silly for spending my afternoon reimplementing the thing instead of looking here to see if it'd been rehosted anywhere.

Comment by lickmyhugeballs at 03/05/2022 at 09:59 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

this seriously sucks... it was such a useful site and i used it all the time....