[Banwave archiving] Does anyone know a web search engine that can find reddit comments via keywords or excerpts? Google and Bing can't.
1 2020-07-03 by Admis___Schwuchteln
So I need to recover the edit additions that I made on a few older comments, on subs that got banned recently - GenderCritical and DebateAltRight, to be specific;
those subs being banned means my comments there have disappeared from my profile page, obviously.
The ones from r/DebateAltright are preserved on PushShift (a Reddit archive site) if I search my username comments there - however not the edits I made to them later.
(The ones from r/GenderCritical are not preserved at all, presumably due to having been removed by the mods there before a snap could be taken.)
So I want to find an archive site that does preserve subsequent edits - by searching the web for excerpts from those edits; and for that, I first need a search engine that can find reddit comments in the first place mao.
Google and Bing don't work; neither does Wayback Machine. Anyone know one that does?
(As additional problems of course, half the comments I'm looking for are behind a removed-wall, and both were behind a permaban-wall while I was making those edits - so that archive site would also need the ability to circumvent login walls or to copy passwords, but that'll be the next step lol.)
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1 SnapshillBot 2020-07-03
Snapshots:
[Banwave archiving] Does anyone kno... - archive.org, archive.today
r/DebateAltright - archive.org, archive.today
r/GenderCritical - archive.org, archive.today*
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1 pandeyji_ka_ladka 2020-07-03
https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/
1 Admis___Schwuchteln 2020-07-03
Thanks! Doesn't work for me though, since it uses Pushshift it shows the same results - the unedited DebateAltright comments, and none of the removed GC comments.
As far as I understand, pushshift only takes the snapshots once - a feature to keep making further shots is planned for the future. And it can't circumvent login walls either - wondering if therr's any site out there that can.