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by Thaxll 2672 days ago
You can do the same for the Reddit API, change the agent header and then you have unlimited API calls.
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ihuman 2671 days ago
Just be careful about how much you change it, since you could get banned. You might be able to get away with changing the app ID or version, but even that's risky.

> NEVER lie about your user-agent. This includes spoofing popular browsers and spoofing other bots. We will ban liars with extreme prejudice.

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/API

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thinkloop 2672 days ago
How would that work, I couldn't find much on the web?
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Thaxll 2672 days ago
Same problem as the mobile app for Twitter, they can't block people that are not logged in the mobile app so they don't rate limit them.
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thinkloop 2671 days ago
How come they can block people on the web again?
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dewey 2672 days ago
Probably by doing a mitm attack on the mobile app and using the headers used there.
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