Recovering from exception about timesearch

[voussoir]

Sorry for the inconvenience, this is another artifact from the PRAW3 to PRAW4 transition. The posts used to be collected oldest-first so that's why it only checks for newer posts when you run it a second time. Now they're collected newest-first and that isn't as good.

You can still provide the --upper and --lower arguments on the commandline. So for example lower should be the timestamp that the subreddit was created, which you can find on the json:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askreddit/about.json Search for "created_utc"

For upper you can use the timestamp from before it crashed. July 14 2015 is approximately 1436897779 but maybe you should set it a bit higher to account for possible timezone offsets.

TLDR:

> timesearch timesearch -r askreddit --upper 1436984179 --lower 1201146735

[voussoir]

The cause is just a read timeout, which means the website was probably too busy. Timestamp searching is fairly expensive which is probably one of the reasons they're killing it / the new platform doesn't support it. It's not your fault.