Support for Pushshift switchover to COLO (as of 2022-12)

[Dominyk4s]

Just a quick temporary fix TL;DR: Added two parameters: _sortvar and _checktotals to API calls; add variables sort_var='order', check_totals=False while calling search_submissions or any other function for it to work with the latest data in Pushshift

Longer version:

After moving to COLO (related Reddit post is here), The current wrapper stopped working. Known differences:

• order instead of sort parameter to sort data in the response (added parameter sort_var, defaults to older sort, but can be replaced to order in API call functions)
• the metadata (including the total number of items in the database) is not returned anymore, therefore added a parameter _checktotals, where False value will skip checking it (can cause a discrepancy in data)

[mattpodolak]

hey @Dominyk4s, thanks for opening this PR! I'll review it today/tomorrow

[mattpodolak]

@Dominyk4s there was a similar PR that addressed a couple of the changes in the COLO switchover, can you review the conflicts?

[Dominyk4s]

@Dominyk4s there was a similar PR that addressed a couple of the changes in the COLO switchover, can you review the conflicts?

@mattpodolak, I reviewed another PR, which seems to solve the same thing, just with a different approach (changes the defaults there and I'm adding everything as variables here). And I see you moved forward with even more updates, so we can close this PR 😊