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/reddit/subreddit/search not working
What am I trying to do?
Obtaining a list of subreddits
How did I try to do it?
Using the api.pushshift.com/reddit/subreddit/search api endpoint listed at https://pushshift.io/api-parameters/
What happened?
An HTTP 404 response was returned.
Here's the ipython snippet:
Python 3.6.9 (default, Nov 7 2019, 10:44:02)
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IPython 7.10.2 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.
In [1]: import requests
In [2]: res = requests.get('https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/subreddit/search?sort=desc')
In [3]: res.status_code
Out[3]: 404
In [4]: print(res)
<Response [404]>
In [5]: print(res.content)
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In [6]:
What was I expecting?
Some kind of response (A list of subreddits sorted in ascending order of something).
what can we do to assist to get the subreddit endpoint online?
I tried this test beta endpoint for the subreddit api: https://beta.pushshift.io/search/reddit/subreddits?size=25&q=test
and I receive an Internal Server Error error
