touch foxglove NOW 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)
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Hey, you idiot. It's not our fault that your bot stopped posting. It's because you're using a shitty Python wrapper that doesn't work. So go screw yourself, and learn how to use the API properly.
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cute twink, it's not the wrapper's fault that ht escript stopped working, it is the API's fault. Frick you queer
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That's a really ignorant thing to say. Maybe if you did some actual research you would know that it's not the wrapper's fault, but the API's. But I guess that would require too much effort for you.
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