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Geddit: Open-source, Reddit client for Android without using API

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Re: Geddit: Open-source, Reddit client for Android without using API

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Post by anste »

Neat. I wasn't aware that there's an endpoint you could use to retrieve JSON data without an API key. If this project were to gain more traction, I suppose they would interfere with that, right?

It's sad to see that every free Reddit client is forced to be a browser nowadays.

Re: Geddit: Open-source, Reddit client for Android without using API

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Post by nicce »

anste wrote: post #2

Neat. I wasn't aware that there's an endpoint you could use to retrieve JSON data without an API key. If this project were to gain more traction, I suppose they would interfere with that, right? It's sad to see that every free Reddit client is forced to be a browser nowadays.

> I suppose they would interfere with that, right?

They will, and go hard on it. Otherwise they are not backing up their problems and prior decisions.

Re: Geddit: Open-source, Reddit client for Android without using API

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Post by lvncelot »

anste wrote: post #2

Neat. I wasn't aware that there's an endpoint you could use to retrieve JSON data without an API key. If this project were to gain more traction, I suppose they would interfere with that, right? It's sad to see that every free Reddit client is forced to be a browser nowadays.

The JSON endpoints are pretty neat, you can just take any reddit page, be it subreddit, submission comments or username, and append `/.json` to the URL and tadaa, JSON data. Although like you said, I'm pretty sure they will axe it at some point, and I'm honestly surprised that they didn't already.

I can imagine however, that old.reddit.com scraping/parsing layers will pop up left and right as soon as that happens (and those in turn could be the final nail in the coffin for old.reddit.com)

Re: Geddit: Open-source, Reddit client for Android without using API

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Post by qalmakka »

anste wrote: post #2

Neat. I wasn't aware that there's an endpoint you could use to retrieve JSON data without an API key. If this project were to gain more traction, I suppose they would interfere with that, right? It's sad to see that every free Reddit client is forced to be a browser nowadays.

I think spez completely forgot about the fact they had a way to export data as JSON everywhere. That's basically 80% of what a reddit client needs and basically all an LLM model needs for training.

Re: Geddit: Open-source, Reddit client for Android without using API

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Post by radarsat1 »

anste wrote: post #2

Neat. I wasn't aware that there's an endpoint you could use to retrieve JSON data without an API key. If this project were to gain more traction, I suppose they would interfere with that, right? It's sad to see that every free Reddit client is forced to be a browser nowadays.

> Neat. I wasn't aware that there's an endpoint you could use to retrieve JSON data without an API key.

Call me naive but in fact I always thought that's what the apps were using. One thing that took me by surprise in the whole fiasco was that the apps were actually using their own API keys -- I always thought I was just logged in to reddit in my own account. I figured it might be using some backend service for storing some app metadata but I didn't realize it was needing to communicate with reddit using the app developer's account on my behalf.

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