Are there plans to update the bulk reddit files at files.pushshift.io/reddit/ ? Looks like most/all of 2020 is missing and these are my main ingest source :)
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Yes. So to give some background, the last couple months have been very difficult since we have been moving our infrastructure into the cloud. We are going to start maintaining the monthly dumps again and get caught up as soon as possible. Realistically I would say that we
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should get completely caught up by late spring of this year and then maintain them regularly from that point forward.
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Woah thats a big change and I'm sure quite a lot of work!
Your work is greatly appreciated as always
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Thanks! Feedback is always helpful -- especially knowing what parts of our service are the most used, etc.
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I (and my research partner) are probably an outlier compared to your usual users. We've made our own local database for the sake of throughput/weird queries and use the monthly dumps as our upstream data source on a 6+ month delay. We don't need 2020-21 data yet, so no rush!
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Also, when we start filling in the missing monthly dumps, we'll probably work backwards because we especially want to capture (update) all the comment / post scores related to the insurrection in January, the election, etc.
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Yes. The Reddit monthly dumps are currently in progress and we should start to have the missing months up within the next several weeks (it may take up to two months to fill in all the gaps but data will go up as it is collected).
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Wonderful! I'm confused though, don't you already have the data within pushshift's database?
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Yes but the monthly dumps that are currently up are always rescanned so that we can include the most recent score data for all comments and submissions. As the API is (usually) near real-time, it doesn't have any real data on the final scores for comments (upvotes).
So the re-ingest of all the comments and submissions provide more accurate score data, etc.
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Oh! I thought the scores were always wrong and was planning to re-fetch myself. That'll save me an incredible amount of time :D
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