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PullPush.io
An open successor to Pushshift offering keyless full-text search across Reddit comments and submissions, including content that was later removed or deleted. You query it through its JSON API by subreddit or keyword. It is the main practical tool for searching Reddit's history and recovering removed posts.
Why it’s useful & how it works
PullPush is the main practical tool for searching Reddit's past at scale. It inherited the Pushshift dataset, which began collecting Reddit posts and comments from around 2005, and continues updating it. You search through a simple JSON API by specifying a subreddit name, a keyword, a username, or a date range, with no registration or key required. It is especially useful for finding comments or posts that were removed or deleted, since it captured content before those removals happened.
What’s inside
Covers Reddit submissions and comments from approximately 2005 onward, including content later removed by users or moderators. The underlying Pushshift dataset historically held billions of comments; PullPush continues to ingest new data with some lag.
API access
https://api.pullpush.io/reddit/search/submission/?subreddit= <sub> ; /reddit/search/comment/?q=<q>
What we measured
Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.
Reachability
- Direct request
- Cloudflare challenge HTTP 403 191 ms (just a moment)
- Through a datacenter proxy
- Cloudflare challenge HTTP 403 505 ms (just a moment)
- API, direct
- Rate-limited HTTP 429 2.9 s
- API, through a proxy
- Rate-limited HTTP 429 3.1 s
Did a real search return anything?
The request failed · median 10.5 s · down during the run
Slow: budget for long waits, or call it asynchronously.
HTTP 429 on every attempt (proxy).
Benchmark coverage
Found 1 of 3 test items (33%) in the Social cluster. Median response 3.1 s.
By how well known the item is: 0/1 well-known, 0/1 mid, 1/1 obscure .
One item it found: Birthday present from my boss.
Reachability measured 2026-08-22. Search checked 2026-08-22. Benchmark run 2026-08-22.
Access
Programmatic API access (a key may be required, see the API tag).