Some posts are not downloaded about subreddit-archiver HOT 2 OPEN

Hi,

That is not a flaw with the utility. This utility uses the API provided by pushshift.io to get the ids of posts to archive. (This is done because Reddit imposes a limit that only 1000 posts into the past can be queried from its API unless you have the post IDs.)

For some reason, pushshift has not saved the post you notice is missing, it is not the utility that skipped it. From past experience I would wager the missing post was hidden by the spam filter which stopped pushshift from getting hold of it, but was later approved by a moderator, showing up on the subreddit but not on pushshift.

You can find documentation for the pushshift API, used by the tool and which I queried to try see what was wrong, here: https://github.com/pushshift/api

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I am working on making the utility use the Reddit API for the most recent 1000 posts and only then relying on Pushshift.io, mainly for performance reasons, but the fix should help with this issue as well. Again it is a lack of time that has stopped me from working on this shortcoming. Sorry about this!

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