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> USENET is another one, but well out of favor. Fact is, someone could spiff USENET up and it could very easily come back. Reddit?

• KirillPanov 6y ago
  Usenet was decentralized. Usenet didn't fight you if you wanted to scrape all of it. In fact, it encouraged that. Usenet didn't require crappy "API tokens" in order to automate your interactions with it or bring your own user agent... in fact, you had to bring your own user agent; that was the only way to use it. The only thing Reddit has in common with Usenet is good support for threaded discussions.
  • selfhoster11 6y ago
    Reddit is not that bad with regards to scraping. You can append `.json` to any URL and it will return a JSON representation of this page: https://www.reddit.com/.json https://www.reddit.com/.json As for API tokens, that's unfortunately just the current trend of basically every other site with user-generated content. It's unfair to single out Reddit in particular when nearly everyone else does this too.
    • KirillPanov 6y ago
      > As for API tokens, that's unfortunately just the current trend of basically every other site with user-generated content. Totally hilarious that you posted this on a discussion site whose API doesn't require tokens. https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API