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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Wait, I thought Gab used the Mastodon API? Is /api/v1/streaming/public not available?
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Hey -- great call on streaming/public -- that is working! You rock!
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Yeah advantage of using Mastodon is all of the available doc is working for this website as well
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Ok -- I can write code to work with the streaming public endpoint. The question is if I can get any historical data from streaming (like ask to go back a bit). Doubtful.
But this is extremely helpful. Thanks so much!