Gab made a change within the past 3 weeks that disabled an API endpoint that gave access to a public view of all posts made to Gab. This may have been done to increase the effort required by researchers to ingest the data. A side effect of this move causes new Gab users to...
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...basically be invisible until someone starts following them or they are reposted. It is still possible to get historical data at the moment, but it requires per user ingesting or following everyone on the site (which is a lot of API calls).
Working on restoring the full ingest
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Thanks for the heads-up! Curious how the user-based version of historical ingest could work. Is there an API endpoint listing all users to start from?
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