It’s quite hard to relive history on reddit. I wanted to write a piece about “2015 CS esports”, and one of the best ways to do so would be to view a “top of 2015” for a /r/GlobalOffensive. Sadly, I couldn’t find anything for this (at least not via a quick Google search).
The closest I can find is rereddit, which is a platform feature to find the top posts for the entire website for a particular year or month, which is at least something. A user made something called Boreddit which is the closest thing, but is sadly no longer around.
So, I wrote that out, and realised it should be fairly trivial to replicate this with PullPush and Claude to do the brunt-work. And you know what, it was! reddit-time-traveller is a quick and dirty Python CLI tool, that allows you to search for the top posts for a given year, for a given subreddit.
(Interesting quirk of using Claude: Claude didn’t know about PullPush, but did know about PushShift, which PullPush is based from. It was trivial to translate from one to the other, but an interesting quirk nonetheless.)