• 𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕡@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I wonder how hard it will be to just scrape the HTML to accomplish this. It’d be a bit of a cat-and-mouse game, but you’d probably get pretty far just using Google’s user agent string. I kind of think Reddit wouldn’t actually care about scraping vs API access, since all of Reddit’s dumbfuckery seems to be coming from spez panicking due to investor pressure, and I’d bet investors don’t have the faintest idea what “scraping” is.

    • Cyb3rManiak@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      They’re using RSS feeds. Not the API. Shouldn’t be affected.
      Also, the API isn’t closing. Devs will just need to pay for it if they go over some limits (which were increased since the blackout protest).