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KDEBugBot is currently not working due to the changes made by the Reddit API
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Hi all!

I'm sure you guys are no stranger to the problems happening recently related to the Reddit API. The short version of the story is that they moved API access to a paid model, but I can't find all of the details about that. Anyone who has information on the specifics of that, please post here, since I don't spend a lot of time on Reddit anymore.

The KDEBugBot uses pushshift.io which is an external third party API that tries to grab everything from the Reddit API to make it searchable. The reason the bot uses that API instead of the "real" one is because the /search endpoint in the past has not been able to give me accurate results for searching for "bugs.kde.org" and similar, which it uses to find references to bugs people are posting about. The third party API always gave me verbatim results that actually matched that text, whereas the actual Reddit API brings in completely unrelated posts. EDIT Also I was just testing /search and I remember now that it doesn't have a way to search for comments either. Sigh.

I would prefer to keep the KDEBugBot working if it's not too hard to do so. I know some users like it because it helps discussions about bugs, especially when you're in situations where you don't want to open a different app to view the bug info like mobile.

My goal is to see if the /search API endpoint can be viable. Likewise I would need to see if the API pricing is "good enough" for something that only posts at most a few hundred posts per month. I have no interest in paying for the Reddit API for this purpose and likewise I have no interest in having to collect donations or anything of that nature to keep the bot running as it complicates my taxes, banks get mad at random money coming from random countries and eats up too much time.

Please let me know if you have any ideas or feedback.

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To my knowledge PushShift was shut down briefly due to an issue with Reddit around the API changes, and then brought back with some conditions, and maybe that's what's affecting this? I would check out the pushshift subreddit for more.

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