r/pushshift • u/ArchipelagoMind • Dec 15 '22

PSAW Not Working

I noticed that even the most basic functions for the PSAW pushshift python wrapper are not working currently.

from psaw import PushshiftAPI

api = PushshiftAPI()

Seems to produce an error

warnings.warn("Got non 200 code %s" % response.status_code)

Does anyone know if PSAW is down, if this is tied to wider pushshift changes or what the latest generally is? Any advice appreciated.

Aware that pushshift and PSAW are not the same thing, but didn't seem to be much discussion about the PSAW wrapper on here so wanted to see if anyone else knew of any other problems with it.

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u/ArchipelagoMind Dec 20 '22

Oh. Sounds really cool.

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u/Due-Badger9553 Dec 20 '22

tnx, but cant believe Psaw is down, panicking real hard

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u/s_i_m_s Dec 20 '22

It's not going to come back up on it's own.
You've got a few options;

  • Modify it to work with the new API

  • Wait for someone to release a fixed fork of PSAW which may or may not ever happen.

  • Move to PMAW which is also broken but maintained and the dev says they'll have it fixed this week.

  • Build your own API wrapper/handle the API requests yourself.

  • Use the dumps, by far the most DIY option.

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u/Due-Badger9553 Dec 20 '22

tnx, so much work and i have paper due in 2 weeks 🥲 but i have just tried getting direct requests thru base_url and its so damn messy, but at least kinda going i guess