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toyg · 2020-04-09 16:13:49+00:00

Probably with the official Reddit API? There are several libraries for it.

O_H_E | karma 1534 | avg karma 1.84 · | 2019-01-27 04:30:48+00:00

Reddit have a Public API, thats how all these unofficial clients work. Don't know for sure if this site is using it. (It probably is)

TazeTSchnitzel | karma 26116 | avg karma 2.81 · | 2012-10-27 00:02:59+00:00

Isn't that the non-public internal reddit API? They have proper APIs for other things, I think.

loktarogar | karma 819 | avg karma 3.25 · | 2020-09-24 07:10:14+00:00

the base reddit api is pretty good - just tack a .json onto any url for an example

dilap | karma 8428 | avg karma 4.11 · | 2023-06-08 17:23:36

Yeah I don't know either. How hard could it be to build though? I say that half-jokingly...

Is the reddit API complex?

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vtbassmatt | karma 950 | avg karma 7.98 · | 2015-05-08 17:24:39

Reddit's API is pretty easy to get started with. Find a page within Reddit that contains the data you want, add ".json" to the URL, and chances are very good that you'll get exactly what you need.

madmoose | karma 461 | avg karma 4.27 · | 2023-06-15 09:58:28

Ask reddit, they used to have an API.

gitgud | karma 5259 | avg karma 2.23 · | 2018-08-21 03:26:27

This is such a cool idea! Does it scrape reddit, or use the API?

whb07 | karma 764 | avg karma 1.23 · | 2020-03-02 13:06:32+00:00

reddit has a JSON api you can access with your credentials.

masklinn | karma 65147 | avg karma 3.36 · | 2009-09-07 16:56:42+00:00

There's an open-source Reddit client out there, if yc provided some kind of API (you don't want to do page scraping on the iphone) it would probably be pretty easy to adapt it.

pixelatedindex | karma 508 | avg karma 2.08 · | 2023-06-13 11:55:01

Reddit's APIs are not user-based from what I can tell.

The_Colonel | karma 5205 | avg karma 2.55 · | 2023-06-16 04:36:03

None of this is available in the Reddit API (at least the one used by 3rd party apps).

avree | karma 2188 | avg karma 4.01 · | 2023-06-20 16:53:40

Reddit's API is free for my use cases. From their documentation: "Our API allows free access to moderators and developers creating these tools for non-commercial use cases."

tumult | karma 4430 | avg karma 4.94 · | 2023-05-31 14:53:14

Reddit is a website. Just make normal browser requests. You don't have to use their "sanctioned" "API."

NicoJuicy | karma 10294 | avg karma 1.47 · | 2021-01-11 15:54:38+00:00

I crawled reddit in several topics.

It's supported through their api.

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jwcrux | karma 2268 | avg karma 7.32 · | 2014-08-11 16:59:10+00:00

Why not use PRAW? It's very mature, useful library using the Reddit API.

fernandotakai | karma 2266 | avg karma 3.14 · | 2019-07-14 13:25:56+00:00

i wonder if someone will replicate the old reddit using reddit's api. i mean, there are full featured mobile clients, i wonder if the api licensing would allow it.

gkbrk | karma 2202 | avg karma 4.56 · | 2023-12-18 22:04:45

Reddit has an API and many clients.

silicon2401 | karma 2620 | avg karma 2.26 · | 2021-03-23 14:23:04+00:00

Bummer; so there is a reddit API, but you really can't use it to just get your saves/comments/etc? I had assumed you could. I guess this'll take more effort than I thought. thanks!

ElbertF | karma 1030 | avg karma 3.1 · | 2010-09-18 22:30:45

Pastebin perhaps? And Reddit posts, they have a nice API.