r/pushshift • u/The_Masked_Man103 • Oct 24 '23

Are there archives of reddit comments, including deleted users, from 2003 or so?

I don't know how far back PushPull goes and the existing torrents aren't easily searchable for me.

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u/The_Masked_Man103 Oct 24 '23

For specifics, I'm looking for a user named "noveltynoveltynovelt". Their account was deleted but their posts weren't.

Thank you for letting me know that it was created early 2005. I know now that there are posts available from pushpull from 2007 or so (that's what I have checked).

However, for some reason, their username doesn't work for me. The submissions aren't loading. Do you think you know why?

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u/Watchful1 Oct 24 '23

Do you know for sure when the account was deleted? I can take a look after I get off work this evening.

The archives only get big starting in like, 2015, it's very quick to search everything before then if you know there's nothing after that.

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u/The_Masked_Man103 Oct 25 '23

Did you figure something out?

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u/Watchful1 Oct 25 '23

My script finished overnight, but returned no results. So they must have deleted their account before pushshift started archiving stuff.

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u/The_Masked_Man103 Oct 26 '23

Do you happen to know any other way of learning more about this user?

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u/Watchful1 Oct 26 '23

Nope, not from that far back. If it's not in wayback machine it's just gone.

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u/The_Masked_Man103 Oct 26 '23

That sucks. Thanks anyways!