Nice work, thanks for sharing your know how.
I would give it try.
so if iam understanding this right, reddit deleted the ppshow sub, not the individual users data which was posted onthe sub, and we all could retrieve this data with the python scrip.
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Not quite. Reddit banned the subreddit, but the data is still there. You can get your data by doing a data request to Reddit. You can follow the link on the GitHub page or just search google for Reddit data request. Once you do the data request you’ll get a link after a few minutes or hours depending on the size of it. This project all it does is use the information in that request which is in a csv file which you can open in excel or so, and converts it into an html page that shows your posts kind of like the same way you would see them on Reddit.
The problem with this approach is that each user needs to get their own data. I’m happy to generate the html on my side if you send me your requests file. Just make sure to open the posts.csv file on excel and remove anything you don’t want to share and then I can run the tool and publish it so everyone can have access to it.
Does it mean, that with such tool all the DDs can be retrieved?
No, each user needs to request their data manually via the Reddit data request.
https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
This will give you a zip file with multiple Csv files inside. These files can be viewed in excel.
This tool just creates a web page from that Csv to make it look nicer and possible to put everything into one place online.
But if Jake2b submits a request and shares the result with you we can get all his DD back?? 👀
Yes, if Reddit actually still has that data (which it should). In the meantime I updated the website with all the data since 7th of January this year by using the archive that @shazam33 provided on X.
This is really neat information! Thanks so much for this. Reading it, my assumption is that it would also be possible to gather user data from other banned subs using this technique? I am thinking of course of r/DRSyourGME which had plenty of positive content and DRS based research as well. Much of it was archived using archive.org, but much was thought to be lost as well.
In theory yes. It all depends on Reddit if they actually include that data in there or not. When you do a data request you are getting all your data. To be honest I don’t think many people are willing to do the data request and then send it over, but if so then in theory yes, you could do an archive like this one.
Oh sure - no disagreements it's a tall order to organize such a thing. Interested in the theory at first. Thanks for swift reply.