Support for Parler

[InnovativeInventor]

Parler is a young social media site that has "a significant user base of Trump supporters, conservatives, and Saudi nationalists. Posts on the website often contain far-right content, antisemitism, and conspiracy theories." (Source: Wikipedia).

For those reading this issue: this issue was filed after an IRC conversation on hackint#archivebot with JAA.

[InnovativeInventor]

I'm gonna close this issue now. Will reopen this issue if Parler goes back online.

[TheTechRobo]

I'm going to see what I can do with making Parler work - it seems to have a pretty simple XHR schema.

[TheTechRobo]

Here are some notes for myself.

Getting User Feed (includes post contents :D)

import requests
files = {
    'user': (None, 'waynedupreeshow'),
    # 'page': (None, 2),
}
response = requests.post('https://parler.com/open-api/profile-feed.php', files=files).text
print(response)

Technical problem: Parler seems to return only the first 20 posts in pagination; after that, it starts continually returning posts 11 to 20, it seems...

[TheTechRobo]

Looks like only individual posts can be retrieved without authentication now, cf. #399 (comment)

[TheTechRobo]

Looks like Parler is permanently offline. Back in April there was a death message, now all pages respond with 503.

Edit: This is apparently a "temporary measure," but it's been close to a month. I'm not sure it's coming back up. But it could.