# Pushshift style: comments matching a term in a community, newest at the top
curl -G "https://api.redlisten.com/search" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer rl_live_YOUR_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "q=vaccine subreddit:science" \
--data-urlencode "type=comment" --data-urlencode "t=month" --data-urlencode "limit=100"
# Everything, in order, with a cursor you can save and resume
curl "https://api.redlisten.com/v1/comments?since=2026-11-01T00:00:00Z&limit=1000" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer rl_live_YOUR_KEY"
# {"data":[...], "next_cursor":"11179065", "has_more":true}What Pushshift was, and what it is now
Pushshift collected Reddit posts and comments and served them through a search API and bulk files. For years it was the standard source for academic work on Reddit and the quiet backend of many community tools. In 2023 Reddit restricted it, and today Pushshift access is limited to moderators, for the communities they moderate. Everyone else, which is most of the people who used it, lost the search API and the current data at the same time.
This page is about what Redlisten replaces and what it does not. It says nothing about Pushshift's terms, because those are Pushshift's to state.
What maps to what
| Pushshift use | Redlisten |
|---|---|
| Search comments by term, community, author and date | /search?q=&type=comment with subreddit:, author: and t. Full text, newest at the top, over the plan's window. |
| Search submissions the same way | /search?q=&type=link, same syntax. |
| Pull everything in a community over a period | /r/{sub}/new and /r/{sub}/comments paged with after, or a keyword stream with the community as its filter and no words. |
| Pull all of Reddit in order | /v1/posts and /v1/comments, cursor feeds of every public item, up to 1,000 a page, resumable. |
| Monthly dump files | Daily JSONL exports per keyword stream on the Business plan, kept 30 days. Larger exports by email, as Enterprise. |
| Look up ids | /api/info?id=, /by_id/, /v1/posts/{id}, /v1/comments/{id}. |
| Removed content retained | Native feeds keep the captured text with status, status_changed_at and removed_by. |
| History back to 2005 | Not self serve. Plans search the last 30 days; history to 2013 is an Enterprise conversation by email. |
| Aggregations by day | /v1/trends for any term, by hour or day; /v1/streams/{id}/volume for a stream. |
Where it is a close fit
Any study or tool that works on the current window is well served. The full text index covers every public post and comment, and comments are the half Pushshift users miss most elsewhere. Query syntax takes AND, OR, NOT, quoted phrases, community and author filters, and whole word matching that handles terms like c++. Search pages 100 results a call, and the native feeds page 1,000 on Team and Business, so a corpus of tens of thousands of comments is a short loop. The native record carries the fields a researcher wants: stable author id, community metadata, detected language, score, and the removal status with its timestamp.
The cursor feeds are the part Pushshift never had live. A collector that reads /v1/comments and saves next_cursor after each page builds its own archive from today forward with no gaps, at whatever cadence the plan allows.
Where it is not
History. Pushshift's value for longitudinal work was a decade of data, and Redlisten's plans search 30 days. Paid plans search the last 30 days and free keys the last 7. A study that needs 2019 cannot get it from a self serve plan; email support@redlisten.com with the communities and dates and we will say what is possible. Windows roll forward daily, so a project that starts collecting now has as much history as it has been running.
Limits, plainly
As listed on 6 Nov 2026: Free is $0 with 250 requests a month and a 7 day window. Pro is $29 a month with 50,000 requests, a 30 day window and 1M results. Team is $99 with 250,000 requests, 1,000 items a page on the native feeds and 5M items. Business is $299 with 1,000,000 requests, 10M results, daily exports and a live streaming connection. No daily caps; yearly billing takes two months off. Retrieved data stays yours after a plan ends under the terms. The research page covers dataset building in more depth.