404 for https://api.pushshift.io/meta about timesearch

[voussoir]

Hi, thanks for bringing this to my attention. I generally prefer to maintain authorship instead of doing pull requests.

If /meta is gone for good, we don't need the initialize function at all any more -- we'll just define ratelimit at the top of the file with a constant value.

Sounds like we're doing this:

 DEFAULT_PARAMS = {
     'size': 1000,
-    'sort': 'asc',
-    'sort_type': 'created_utc',
+    'order': 'asc',
+    'sort': 'created_utc',
 }

 session.headers.update({'User-Agent': useragent})
+ratelimit = ratelimiter.Ratelimiter(allowance=120, period=60)
 
 class DummyObject:

-def _initialize_ratelimiter():
-    global ratelimit
-    if ratelimit is not None:
-        return
-    log.debug('Initializing pushshift ratelimiter.')
-    url = 'https://api.pushshift.io/meta'
-    response = session.get(url)
-    response.raise_for_status()
-    response = response.json()
-    limit = response['server_ratelimit_per_minute']
-    log.debug('Pushshift ratelimit is %d requests per minute.', limit)
-    ratelimit = ratelimiter.Ratelimiter(allowance=limit, period=60)
 
 def get(url, params=None):
-    _initialize_ratelimiter()
     if not url.startswith('https://'):
         url = API_URL + url.lstrip('/')

But I'm getting 500-level errors from all of api.pushshift.io so I can't test or read their new docs just yet.

[rickcecil]

I made the changes and tested them and everything is working for me. Thanks @voussoir and @RaedShabbir! I am still getting 524 errors, but it sounds like these have something to do with the move to the COLO and they are working on resolving them. That being said, given enough time, all of my scripts are running. Thanks!

[voussoir]

Closed by 2c0ae72, thank you

[RaedShabbir]

Update:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/zhzaea/the_day_has_finally_arrived_pushshift_api_move/

So i think this is to be expected for a bit.

[RaedShabbir]

Update requires minor change in pushshift.py, "sort"->"order" and "sort_type"->"sort". Will share a PR once I have it fully working.

[rickcecil]

@RaedShabbir Curious the status on your changes?

I am sorting through the required changes myself at the moment. It sounds like https://api.pushshift.io/meta will no longer be available. Or did I misread? Do you know if there is a new URL? Or does the def _initialize_ratelimiter() need to be rewritten?

[rickcecil]

In addition to the sort and order changes above, I had to update def _initialize_ratelimiter(). Not sure if this is the best solution or not. I ended up removing most of the code in def _initialize_ratelimiter(), including the url call to https://api.pushshift.io/meta.

The new def _initialize_ratelimiter() looks like this:

def _initialize_ratelimiter():
global ratelimit
ratelimit = ratelimiter.Ratelimiter(allowance=120, period=60)

It seems to be working.

I cannot figure out how to get a dynamic rate limit from pushshift itself.