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Stuck_In_the_Matrix is in Idaho

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Thanks to /u/itsthejoker for pointing out the bug. There were two bugs causing issues with filtering by parent_id -- both have been fixed.

Working example:

https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/search/comment/?parent_id=ec6y00k&filter=parent_id,body,author,subreddit,created_utc,id

https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/search/comment/?parent_id=t1_ec6y00k&filter=parent_id,body,author,subreddit,created_utc,id

both work.

The first bug was that parent_id was expecting a base 10 integer instead of a base 36 reddit style id. The second bug was that the request was being routed to PostgreSQL instead of Elasticsearch (using q=* would force the correct route).

Also, this only returns all first childs of a parent_id -- it does not return grandchildren comments, etc. The best way to handle that would be to request the entire submission using the link_id parameter and do the logic on your end to reconstruct trees.

In the future at some point, I can add the ability to get all branches below a comment id.

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