just a way to retrieve all comments that come after a certain comment ID
There is an API for that, but it’s broken. this (rss) should get you the 40 comments later than comment number 1000, but it gives 50, regardless of how many you ask for. Also, it rarely gives a link to go to the later comments (only for earlier ones). but if you’ve been walking these things, you probably knew that.
ETA: I misinterpreted the API. “count” is not supposed to control the number of comments, but as a hint to the server about how far back. If that hint is missing or wrong, it leaves out prev/next. Especially prev. You can make prev appear by adding &count=60 (anything over 50), but every time you click prev, it will decrease this number by 50 and eventually not give the prev. You could make it very large.
Awesome! I occasionally want to skim through someone’s posts chronologically, or at least read their first few comments, to see how their views might have changed over time, and see to what extent I can tell the state of mind they were in when they arrived here.
There is an API for that, but it’s broken. this (rss) should get you the 40 comments later than comment number 1000, but it gives 50, regardless of how many you ask for. Also, it rarely gives a link to go to the later comments (only for earlier ones). but if you’ve been walking these things, you probably knew that.
ETA: I misinterpreted the API. “count” is not supposed to control the number of comments, but as a hint to the server about how far back. If that hint is missing or wrong, it leaves out prev/next. Especially prev. You can make prev appear by adding &count=60 (anything over 50), but every time you click prev, it will decrease this number by 50 and eventually not give the prev. You could make it very large.
Would I modify this, or something else, to get the first comment of a particular user?
You can stick ?before=t1_1 onto the end of a user page to get the first comment. yours
Awesome! I occasionally want to skim through someone’s posts chronologically, or at least read their first few comments, to see how their views might have changed over time, and see to what extent I can tell the state of mind they were in when they arrived here.
Since this interface is broken, it’s not so easy to skim. The page is supposed to have a “prev”[1] link at the bottom, but it doesn’t.
ETA: better for skimming is to add not just ?before=t1_1 to the user page, but also &count=100000
[1] I hate the use of prev/next, at least because it isn’t standard (eg, it’s opposite to livejournal). “earlier” and “later” would be clear.