Want to see deleted Reddit posts or comments? Here we have described easy ways to access removed posts from Reddit.

Can I See Deleted Reddit Posts?

Reddit is a popular social news collection, content rating, and forum social network with a ton of engaging content. It is a popular platform among nerds because it is a good source of learning about philosophy, languages, coding, or whatever you are interested in.

Earlier, Reddit attached a price to their free Application Program Interface (API) to see how developers now interact with their APIs. It resulted in the shutting down of many third-party apps, including the ones that allow users to see deleted Reddit posts and threads, and many subreddits also went closed as a form of community protest. For this reason, many apps may not work now, and the ones that do will have the data before API changes. But do not worry about it, as there are still several other ways to view deleted Reddit posts.

How to See Deleted Reddit Posts Via Third-Party Apps

The Reddit platform does not offer an official way to view a deleted post or comment; thus, if it did, the delete option would be worthless. But if you really want to see it, luckily there are some unofficial workarounds mentioned below.

Reveddit

Reveddit is a third-party tool that gets the data from Pushshift. It is a social media data collection and tracking platform that has an old Reddit-like interface, and it has archived Reddit data since 2015. However, Reveddit takes time to load the removed or deleted Reddit data. Here is how to see deleted Reddit posts and comments on Reveddit.

• Navigate to the Reveddit official website.
• Copy the username, subreddit, post link, or a specific thread; paste it in the search bar, and click on the go button.
• On the archive page, click on the Restore button to view the deleted comments.
• You can also check whether a Reddit user has been deleted by a bot or a mod.

The downside of Reveddit is it does show the comments that were deleted by users. So, you can only see the comments deleted by the moderators of the subreddit.

The Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine, or Internet Archive, records the whole Internet data, including Reddit and Quora. It works like a time machine for websites, crawls the web, captures snapshots, and stores them. If the Wayback Machine tool has saved a copy of the Reddit post before it was deleted, you can find that post on your desktop or mobile device using this tool. However, if a user or moderator removes the Reddit comment or thread before the Wayback Machine gets the data, then it will show that the comments are deleted. Follow these steps on how to use the Wayback Machine platform to see deleted Reddit posts and comments.

• Open the Wayback Machine site on your PC or phone.
• Enter the Reddit post’s full URL on the text bar and select the browse history option.
• You will see a calendar that shows any of the dates, and often a web page is saved.
• Now choose a date and timestamp to see the saved version of the deleted Reddit post.
• If you don’t see deleted Reddit posts you want, then go back to the calendar screen and choose a date in the past. Keep doing this till you get the copy of the post that you want to see.

PushPull

Pushpull basically indexes the Reddit content and helps users see deleted and currently available posts and comments. You can even see the deleted Reddit accounts on this platform. This tool is very easy to use if you don’t know the username, you can enter the subreddit or any other search terms you remember. Here are the steps on how to see deleted Reddit posts on the Pushpull platform.

• Visit the Pushpull on your system.
• Type and enter the Reddit username of the person whose posts or comments you want to see.
• Then submit other details like subreddit name, date, and what you look for to narrow the results.
• After that, click on the search button to get the results.

Resavr

Resavr is a third-party tool that lets you see deleted Reddit comments on a post, but it does not let you see deleted Reddit posts. This tool allows you to search for deleted comments by the Reddit username or post title in the deleted comments list or search for recently removed comments. However, older or less popular comments are not available. But you can search as many times as you want. Follow the steps to use Resavr to view deleted comments on Reddit.

• Go to the Resavr website.
• Enter the keyword, post title, or Reddit username in the search bar you will see at the top right side.
• Now you will see a list of deleted content that matches your search criteria. Click on the result that you want to see.

Unddit

Unddit allows you to see deleted Reddit posts and comments removed by moderators and users. To revive the dead comments and threads you have to do a little workaround in your browser. However, make sure that there’s no strict protection enabled on your browser if you are using Unddit. Don’t rush here is how to use the Unddit platform to view the deleted Reddit comments and threads.

• Open the Unddit website on your browser.
• Now bookmark this link.
• Then click and drag it when seeing a Reddit post to pull up removed comments.

How to See Deleted Reddit Posts on Google

Google is another option to access the deleted posts of the Reddit community. Google caches many websites and also lets you see the cached version of these sites. It is probable that when a post has been removed from the Reddit platform, Google cached that Reddit post before it was removed. So it exists on Google, and you can see that Reddit post in Google cache.

To see a removed Reddit post with Google cache, you just have to add cache: at the start of the URL of the post you are looking at (right before the “http” part) and press enter. If Google has a cached version of that post, then you will see the results.

Other Options to See Deleted Reddit Posts

If you have tried all the above-mentioned hacks but they do not work, then try these options. Keep in mind that the below-mentioned options will work if the post is popular, newsworthy, or controversial and shared by other people as well.

• Search on Reddit: Although the original Reddit post is now deleted, someone took a screenshot and posted it on their Reddit thread. You can try to search the deleted post on Reddit using words or phrases you remember.
• Explore Forums and News Sites: Many news websites add Reddit posts directly to their blogs, while some sites take screenshots and use them. So if that original Reddit post is edited or deleted, their blogs have the original version. If you want to see the deleted Reddit post that is popular or newsworthy, you might see it on the Forums and News Sites.
• Search on Twitter (X): Someone may take a screenshot of that deleted Reddit post and post it on Twitter. You can try to search to see deleted Reddit posts on Twitter (X) using the Reddit username or post title and words you remember.

FAQs

Q: Are deleted Reddit posts gone forever?
Ans: No, deleted Reddit posts are not gone forever. They are removed from the public view and hidden from normal browsing and searches. The post still exists on the Reddit server, which means the admins of the platform still see deleted Reddit posts. However, if someone has a direct link to a deleted post, they can also see it, but it appears as deleted, and the username is also removed.

Q: How long do Deleted Reddit posts stay on Reddit?|
Ans: The deleted Reddit posts stay on the Reddit server, and it can also publicly see if someone has a direct link to that post, but it appears as deleted, and the username is also removed. It means the deleted Reddit posts stay on Reddit forever; the post page itself will remain accessible, showing “deleted” but comments are still visible.

Sum Up

Scrolling Reddit and finding a deleted post having lots of upvotes is so annoying. However, it is inappropriate to see deleted Reddit posts and comments as someone removes them for a reason. But if you are really curious to dig into the data and bring deleted Reddit threads and comments back to life, there are archiving third-party tools to recover them. In this post, we have mentioned these tools you can look for.