Does
```
if {"immigrant", "immigration"}.intersection(comment_text)
```
work?

would that work for plurals?

comment_text is a string, so no

intersection is for sets

ah

so I can't check for certain phrases in order?

You can, look at the "white people" condition as an example

oh that's right

I just can't do it as an intersection

right

so, if I want to check for one out of a list of phrases, I just have to use ```and``` a lot?

I mean, I have a list of phrases, and I want to see if one of those phrases is in a comment

that is a straightforward way, a less verbose way would be:
```python
if any(key_phrase in my_string for key_phrase in list_of_phrases)
```

thanks

what do you guys think of DuckDuckGo? I'm sick of google

@Deleted User at first I was hesitant to use it because its owner and founder is a "you know who" but I find DDG gives different results from Google often so it's a good other source to check out. However, if you like Google results and are just worried about privacy then you can use startpage.

@ThisIsChris Any idea why the script skips over some comments?

https://redditsearch.io

If I use this, it shows comments that the script didn't find

@Jacob you could be being rate limited. Instead of silently handling the JSONDecodeError try printing the error to see what's happening. One thing you can do to mitigate is add
```python
import time
time.sleep(4)
```

I did try that

Into the while loop

but I think it misses a lot of comments, no?

I did time.sleep() with .5, 1, and 2

Try 4

That's the documented rate limit

Wouldn't 4 seconds be enough for a lot of comments to be posted?

Also I think the rate limit is actually 1 request every 2 seconds

Otherwise try printing the JSONDecodeError

E0602:Undefined variable 'JSONDecodeError'

@Jacob I think it's one per 2 seconds if you are using a dev account. One per 4 seconds if not

ah

would be interesting if we could find a way around this

like send requests from 4 different IP addresses

To print the JSONDecodeError rewrite the `except` statement to be
```python
except JSONDecodeError as e:
print(str(e))
```

Well, another way to look it is, do we *need* every comment? Running the script for an hour probably will yield more comments than I have time to respond to anyway.

@Jacob sure that shouldn't be a problem, you just need 4 proxies. Or just get a dev account, which is free and not too hard to set up. But I think from a development focus that it's more important to get your system working on just the comments you find first, and after that worry about increasing the throughput of the comment stream

@Jacob "do we need every comment" exactly

That can be a future development step, first step is just to get it working sometimes, then work on that part later

Ya, the function of the program is "scan Reddit for pro-immigration comments so we can respond to them" not "scan Reddit for literally every pro-immigration comment"

Yeeep