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It's not against the rules of reddit, and the allowed request rate is enough to grab everything even during busy periods. You're right that it relies on a cent
by rtheunissen 11y ago
It's not against the rules of reddit, and the allowed request rate is enough to grab everything even during busy periods.
You're right that it relies on a central service that's polling reddit. I've done all I can to make it as stable and scalable as possible. I've been running, monitoring and testing it for a week and it's been keeping up just fine.
- StavrosK 11y agoGiven that many people have bots doing the exact same thing, I don't think you'd have any trouble. Hell, total load on reddit would decrease because people would use your service. I don't know why reddit didn't implement something like this themselves.
- rtheunissen 11y agoGiven the small amount of people that would use it (relative to the entire userbase), I don't think it would ever be on their roadmap. It would take many developer hours and constant maintenance, which wouldn't be worth it for them as a company. They have more important things to build and fix.