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Hi everyone! We've made some changes to Pushshift based on feedback. Here are the updates:
- The access token is now a cookie for the search tool. This means tokens are no longer visible from the search tool's UI. Users that need direct access to the token for programmatic use should instead go through a separate flow that's outlined at http://api.pushshift.io/guide.
- We've implemented a system that allows for expired tokens to be refreshed through an API endpoint also detailed at the above guide. The search tool will automatically refresh expired tokens and moderators running scripts for moderation can use this refresh functionality to get longer than 24h access.
Please let us know if you have any questions!
Searching by author still appears to be broken, despite fixes for this being announced many times. The parameter to do the exact match seems to be undocumented? We found it by looking at what the search tool does, and came up with this URL:
https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/submission/search?exact_author=true&author=Pushshift-Support
However, this still does not work, the returned results do not match the specified author.
Is there something wrong with this URL, or is this indeed still broken?
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This does seem to work now, thanks.
However, it seems there is no longer any way to exclude authors? E.g., we often query for things that exclude Automod and some common bots, but this no longer works, unless the format has changed. We also had issues with excluding multiple authors, or multiple subreddits.