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It would just be "better" to call the private/internal APIs that reddit's clients use themselves. This is more or less what Nitter does for providing alternate
by madeofpalk 3y ago
It would just be "better" to call the private/internal APIs that reddit's clients use themselves.
This is more or less what Nitter does for providing alternate twitter frontend https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
- sphars 3y agoLike nitter, there is Teddit and Libreddit, which are both alternative (read-only) frontends for reddit Teddit: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit Libreddit: https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit
- Macha 3y agoBoth however use the public Reddit API, unlike Nitter which does page scraping. So they'll need significant updates to work past July 1st.
- sphars 3y agoThis is true, both will be SOL come July. There is some discussion going on in Libreddit for solutions in https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/issues/785 https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/issues/785