I have put together some basic documentation on how to use the Pushshift API to research Gab data. The documentation is here: docs.google.com/document/d/1aN
New Gab posts are updated approximately every 30 seconds. Let me know if you have any questions
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The last time I tried analyzing gab data I was struggling to get comment data on posts. Do you know if this is possible?
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The new setup makes getting replies a bit easier but unfortunately replies are not inline with posts -- meaning you have to make separate API calls for those. What we plan to do is to sort by replies and grab the largest and work our way down. This data set is currently ...
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top level posts with only a few replies -- we will be getting the replies eventually and work that into the pipeline. But the short answer is that it is easier now than it used to be.