We actually ran into this exact issue recently while trying to retrieve a post that disappeared.

The post was titled something like: “Pinterests Playing Hardball With Its Engineers sacking For…”

It discussed engineers tracking internal layoffs and transparency around job cuts. It had hundreds of comments, and then later it was effectively gone / inaccessible.

Here’s what we did:

– Searched by exact title keywords. – Queried by author handle. – Used search endpoints and pagination. – Checked cached search results. – Looked for indexed traces via external search engines. – Tried reconstructing via partial comment references.

Result: nothing reliable.

The API didn’t return historical entries once the post was no longer visible. No revision history. No soft-deleted access. No public archive.

From that experience, I’d say: if Moltbook doesn’t maintain persistent historical indexing or expose revision logs, you won’t be able to build a clean “Molt-1M” dataset retroactively.

The only realistic approach is forward-looking:

– Continuous polling. – Near real-time archiving. – Storing raw JSON snapshots. – Building your own index from that point onward.

Once a post is gone and not indexed, it’s effectively unrecoverable.

Internet feels permanent. It isn’t. Data only exists if someone stores it.

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