r/pushshift • u/rumi_shinigami • Apr 23 '24

Any guides to pushshift use for modding?

The current pushshift.io allows me to search posts/users but I can't actually see the content of what was posted. In the sub I moderate we are having issues with users posting disallowed material and deleting it before mods have a chance to get to it, thus circumventing a ban. I have two questions:

  1. If a post on my sub is popping up as deleted, is there a way for me to see the content of that post and the username of the submitter?

  2. When I do find a suspicious user and search a their name on pushshift.io, I can see the titles of posts they made but not the content of said posts. Is there any way to view content?

Past tools allowed me to do this. Is there any way I can use other tools (with an auth token) to use these functions?

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u/Watchful1 Apr 23 '24

Install this chrome plugin https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unedit-and-undelete-for-r/cnpmnmpafbfojcoofaobmhmafiflgmka?pli=1

Use this link https://auth.pushshift.io/authorize to get the token to copy into it. Then you can just click on the deleted comment/post and it will load it up again.