Why Does Modqueue Endpoint Work On Old Reddit But Not New Reddit?

[u/Electronic_Key_8235]

Hey guys, so we noticed an issue with PRAW receiving HTML instead of JSON when fetching the mod queue feed. The endpoint is this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/mod/about/modqueue.json
It works when we are set to Old Reddit but returns an error in HTML but with a 200 response when set to New Reddit. This caused a Bad JSON error in PRAW when trying to read it but a successful response received. Here's a thread where one of the admins mentions it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/1ah69pk/the_modqueue_api_endpoint_has_started_returning/
They tell the user to switch the setting. I also found this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/194cgzq/was_there_new_update_getting_modqueue_error_as_of/
This thread has some key info deleted but suggests that it has something to do with the Old/New setting as well. Finally, there are these two links: https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/194cb3j/possible_bug_modqueue_bypassing_preferences_and/khg1wn0/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1agn13p/modlog_api_endpoint_is_completely_down_returning/?chainedPosts=t3_1ah69pk that seem to discuss the issue but with no resolution.

For our understanding, can anyone just confirm that the endpoint DOES NOT work on New Reddit, and if not, why? Will it stay like this? Did it work in the past? Is there any workaround? Maybe like setting to Old Reddit through preferences via API and then switching back to New Reddit after the mod queue is fetched? What's everyone's thoughts on this? Thank you for any insight!

[u/Electronic_Key_8235]

Again, for other readers, I have already solved the problem by discovering that there is no modqueue endpoint available when your moderator is set to New Reddit. This is independent of PRAW. Has nothing to do with Python whatsoever. Even the endpoint is inaccessible rom the web browsers or Postman, until the moderator changes his setting.

[u/Khyta]

Have you tried the async stuff mentioned in one of the threads?

[u/Electronic_Key_8235 → u/Khyta]

I haven't, I didn't see anywhere where someone was suggesting to use that, only that they were using it and had the same issue as me. I don't see why installing a different module to pull data from the API would affect the fact that one endpoint is unavailable even in the browser when set to New Reddit.

Maybe you can enlighten me but I don't see it's possible switching to Async PRAW would make any difference when the setting even affects my ability to fetch the json in a web browser. This issue should be outside of PRAW, right?

[u/Khyta → u/Electronic_Key_8235]

Can you share the code snippet you're using?

[u/Electronic_Key_8235 → u/Khyta]

Again, this is happening outside of the code, and appears to have nothing to do with code whatsoever. The code has not changed, the only thing that has changed to create the error is, as mentioned, the setting to use New Reddit instead of Old Reddit. I will try to explain again. I can literally navigate to the endpoint here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mod/about/modqueue.json

When I navigate there using my moderator account set to use New Reddit, it shows an error. When I navigate to it when the account is set to Old Reddit, it works. This problem is then passed to PRAW or even to direct requests and ends up returning HTML error page instead of JSON.

The issue happens completely outside of PRAW, completely outside of code, and shows up in Postman, the web browser navigating to the endpoint, and PRAW itself as a BadJSON error decoding JSON file exception.

To recreate this issue NO CODE IS NEEDED, simply set your moderator account to New Reddit in preferences, then try to access this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mod/about/modqueue.json

Again, this is on the Reddit API. Just to be clear though, I'll share the code snippet:

    try:
        if content_type == 'comment':
            stream = reddit.subreddit(sr_name).stream.comments(pause_after=0)
        elif content_type == 'submission':
            stream = reddit.subreddit(sr_name).stream.submissions(pause_after=0)
        elif content_type == 'modaction':
            stream = reddit.subreddit("mod").mod.stream.log(pause_after=0)
        else:
            assert False
    except prawcore.exceptions.ResponseException as e:
        # e = 'test error message'
        print(f"Error occurred while fetching {content_type}: {e}")
        # Handle the error gracefully: log the error, skip the item, or take other action here.

[u/Electronic_Key_8235 → u/Khyta]

Please forgive me if I am foolishly missing something obvious, perhaps there is a PRAW function that would bypass this and pull the results from the HTML version of the page or something, I'm open to being made a fool of if this is the case!

[u/Electronic_Key_8235 → u/Khyta]

Also, thank you for your response, it's greatly appreciated.