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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 s
by KMnO4 3y ago
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.
- moneywoes 3y agoWon’t they just get rate limited or hit with captchas
- rovr138 3y agoCurrently, just add .json to the end of the url. I have no idea what will happen to this with the changes. If what you suggest is done, even a package, we could probably do a distributed pushshift[1] alternative to aggregate the data like the archiveteam's warrior[2] does and keep publishing the monthly data. [1] - reddit.com/r/pushshift [2] - https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_War...