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I just want to be able to search my own comments for keywords.
Good to know. We've had a few other people bring this up as well. I'll add that to the feedback I'm putting together, but if you want to share more, feel free to throw more thoughts in the survey.
That's probably my biggest issue on Reddit.
I often put in a lot of time and effort to write a thorough reply to a question and when the same topic comes up again months later, I can't find my comment, which I could otherwise copy or link. There are some third party tools, but they are limited to the latest 1,000 comments.
To avoid people looking through all old comments of other users, I would limit this feature to a user's own comments.
https://camas.github.io/reddit-search is not
I can't believe I never searched for "Reddit search" on github. Thanks a ton!
It relies on the Pushshift API, documented at r/pushshift.
also, it can be a little hokey. i haven't dug through the documentation to figure out if it supports wildcard type stuff, but i know many times if i search for a specific website such as "youtube" on my previous comments, it will miss tons of posts but searching for "www.youtube.com" will find them. (same holds true for scotusblog, and any other website)
many times when i'm looking for a previous comment it's because i'm looking for a link i remembered including in a comment years ago.
that being said, camas/pushshift are awesome.
Seriously. Letting people natively organize and tag their comments and replies would be such a wealth of signals for the search team to mine on top of that.
It seems to have gotten worse at some point in recent memory.
I used to be able to go back forever in /u/guyblade/comments, but now it seems to not let me go back more than a year. That plus Ctrl-F was my fallback plan, but it doesn't even work anymore.
It would also be fantastic to be able to filter comment profiles by subreddit.
Let me filter comments by subreddit and point in time.
This is one of the most painfully obvious and sought-after features on Reddit.
I want to download my entire comment history. Can you please add that feature?
Um...is that something that just anyone can do? And if so, how? With Python or something?
So, the real issue is the 1000-post restriction then huh? Is there a restriction on requests per second? In other words, is there a workaround or do you mean Reddit will not fetch comments older than 1000?
I know the sites are probably way different and post volumes aren't like they are on reddit so detailed searches like at The Shroomery might not be possible but this has been the most effective search layout I've come across.
Modifiable list of subreddits to the left that defaults to all the users subscribed subreddits (with options to clear list, add/remove subreddits to be searched, or search all of reddit.) Key word search, date range search, username search; it's all there. All can be combined or omitted depending on the searchers needs.
Search saved posts!
that will never happen. they let you tag saved posts to find them easily... if you pay reddit a monthly fee for gold.
You guys literally don't care why do you even bother saying we'll add this to the feedback? What you do is push changes no one wants that make things more difficult to use and then act like you have no idea what's wrong
https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/
This idea it so well and so quick I’m amazed that Reddit can’t/won’t just copy it.
Sorry but we clearly don't have that kind of technology yet...
So you can search "commenting so I can find this later"?
Ctrl + F