@HeyMoon's comment on 'Open Call For Coders: Please Help Me Fix Autodrama!'

https://fsdfsd.net/HeyMoon/autodrama/src/branch/master/autodrama.py

hey bot-fans, you may have noticed that fan-favorite bot @autodrama stopped posting about three months ago. This is because the monkeys at pushshift screwed up the way that comments are retrieved. I call into pushshift's API here to get comments on a post, however, this randomly stopped working.

PMAW is a python wrapper for pushshift. I only use it once, and that is to get all the comments on a particular post. The API documentation says that I can do this with "link_id" (https://pushshift.io/api-parameters/) but when I try to hit api.pushshift.io/reddit/comment/search/?link_id=10pv7qa&subreddit=ScienceUncensored, I get this response:

{
    "data": [],
    "error": null,
    "errors": {
        "error": {
            "root_cause": [
                {
                    "type": "query_shard_exception",
                    "reason": "failed to create query: For input string: \"10pv7qa\"",
                    "index_uuid": "htpvQm2RT4uCWzM53Q3zuw",
                    "index": "rc_2005-12"
                },
                <above object 200 more times>
            ],
            "type": "search_phase_execution_exception",
            "reason": "all shards failed",
            "phase": "query",
            "grouped": true,
            "failed_shards": [
                {
                    "shard": 0,
                    "index": "rc_2005-12",
                    "node": "r5briY5hS_mr4RzlALKdow",
                    "reason": {
                        "type": "query_shard_exception",
                        "reason": "failed to create query: For input string: \"10pv7qa\"",
                        "index_uuid": "htpvQm2RT4uCWzM53Q3zuw",
                        "index": "rc_2005-12",
                        "caused_by": {
                            "type": "number_format_exception",
                            "reason": "For input string: \"10pv7qa\""
                        }
                    }
                },
                <above object 200 more times>
            ]
        },
        "status": 400
    }
}

Yes, I reported this issue to the maintainers of pushshift, but have gotten no response back.

Clearly, the backend is interpretting what should be strings as numbers, because this works: api.pushshift.io/reddit/comment/search/?link_id=100000&subreddit=trees

I also tried using pushshift's /comment_ids endpoint but shit's broken too.

Fellas, any thoughts? @automeme is my only child that is not estranged, unlike my other children @bbbb (who hates me 😭) and @automeme (who is clinically retarded)