Disqus API detect deleted posts

Question

Does anyone know how to detect deleted posts in using the Disqus API?

I'm syncrhonizing posts from Disqus using the forums.listPosts method of the API.

The listPosts method does not update the date of a deleted post, so when retrieving posts incrementaly using the since parameter, deleted posts are never retrieved again, thus I cannot delete them (They have an isDeleted attribute).

Any idea, besides brute force, on how to obtain deleted post when they're deleted?

Thanks!

Answer 1

There is no way to sort data by the date it was modified, so there's no direct way to get comments that have been most recently deleted.

About the only option is to occasionally page through all the deleted comments on the site (by only using the "include=deleted" parameter) and update any comments that have changed states the last time they were added to your database.