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by fluidcruft 1109 days ago
Doesn't reddit's website use an API? It's new.reddit.com seems like some single page app bullshit, right?

The real problem you will run into though is that Reddit will restrict what you can access without login. They already tried to flip the switch once on requiring login to access NSFW content, and had to backtrack at least temporarily. I'm not exactly sure why they had to, but supposedly they have now added some missing feature to their web version that allows upload of NSFW content on desktop, so maybe they're ready to unpause. And the official API will block NSFW so I think that's returning. And once you login, scraping will earn a ban. Reddit is also very over zealous with IP bans.
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dom96 1109 days ago
It's actually interesting how they do it. The new and old Reddit seems surprisingly similar in how they handle at least the initial page loads.

> And once you login, scraping will earn a ban. Reddit is also very over zealous with IP bans.

Argh, that would suck. Not as bad as losing my Twitter but still. That said, they explicitly say in their API docs "We're happy to have API clients, crawlers, scrapers, and browser extensions". So at one point in time they were happy to allow scrapers.

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