An R package for connection to the https://pushshift.io API.
I only just started this, so it's not on CRAN (and I'm not at all sure it ever will be). If you'd like to install this and give it a whirl, the best way would be to use the devtools package:
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("whereofonecannotspeak/pushshiftr")The basic use case is searching submissions or comments. If you want to know whether your question about Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been asked on /r/AskHistorians recently you might run this command:
ps_search_submissions(search_terms = c("Cao Cao", "Liu Bei"), subreddit = "AskHistorians", since = "2017-01-01")