Thank you for this! It was super useful, I was able to automate backing up and then editing most of my comments by using this.
It appears some of my comments were brought back from the edidead by Reddit. Running the script again, but be careful
Hey, so I modified your script to print out what it was overwriting. Like literally just these five lines:
count += 1
print(f"Comment.id {comment.id}“)
print(f"Comment.permalink https://www.reddit.com{comment.permalink}”)
print(f"Comment.body\n{comment.body}“)
print(f"Count: {count}”)
I saw something similar, but since I have this extra detail, I was able to determine that the content the script overwrote is staying overwritten. Rather, it’s that Reddit’s API is not returning everything to us. More details at https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than
TLDR; it may be the case that we’re finding other content too old that got missed by the script rather than reddit undeleting/unediting stuff the script found.
There’s another script out there on github that uses Pushshfit’s API to get around this, see https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than#entry-comment-202228
Not sure if that will keep working past June 30, so we need to look into that asap.