Good luck. News is the API fees are going to destroy Apollo.
HTML is a perfectly good API.
Most HTML is undocumented and unstable, so I’d say it’s far from perfect.
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#32Good luck. News is the API fees are going to destroy Apollo.
$12,000 per 50 million requests according to a post the dev made on Reddit, which he claims translates to $20 million a year.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
HTML is a perfectly good API.
Most HTML is undocumented and unstable, so I’d say it’s far from perfect.
It's perfect in that there's no way for them to differentiate from normal browser traffic. This is adversarial interoperability which is exactly how we're supposed to deal with corporations and their idiotic "terms". Nobody is forced to accept their "take it or leave it" BS.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...
If it's important enough, someone somewhere will care enough to fix it when it inevitably breaks. Look at youtube-dl and its variations, there's even a youtube.js now.
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#35Very slow but I think that’s a feature. Makes Reddit less addicting
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe Teddit uses scraping; I run a Teddit instance for myself and haven't needed to set up an API key.
It would be great for someone to scrape Reddit and expose that information in a format compatible with the official API. So if you call /get-comments/1234 it scrapes post 1234 and returns the JSON object exactly as the official API does. Then third party clients can just point to this endpoint.
Won’t they just get rate limited or hit with captchas
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most HTML is undocumented and unstable, so I’d say it’s far from perfect.
It's perfect in that there's no way for them to differentiate from normal browser traffic. This is adversarial interoperability which is exactly how we're supposed to deal with corporations and their idiotic "terms". Nobody is forced to accept their "take it or leave it" BS. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera... If it's important enough, someone somewhere will care enough to fix it when it i…
Can’t they just fingerprint the incoming requests based on a litany of variables such as headers ip etc to prevent this “scraping”?
Sorry I don’t follow
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#38I’ve used teddit but prefer libreddit https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit > It is a private front-end like Invidious but for Reddit. - Fast: written in Rust for blazing-fast speeds and memory safety - Light: no JavaScript, no ads, no tracking, no bloat -Private: all requests are proxied through the server, including media -Secure: strong Content Security Policy prevents browser requests to Reddit of course you can…
>Libreddit is themed around Reddit's redesign whereas Teddit appears to stick much closer to Reddit's old design. This may suit some users better as design is always subjective.
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#40For those hosting their own Reddit/libreddit instance doesn't that reduce anonymity to Reddit by having only a single user? I have been using public ones to mix my traffic in with others.