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Ask HN: Legality of archiving/re-hosting Reddit content
25 points by dom96 3y ago|52 comments
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by dom96 3y ago
Any chance I could get one too? Email's on my website: https://picheta.me
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by dom96 3y ago
I really like the subtle animations in the UI. What do you use for the front-end/back-end tech stack?
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by dom96 3y ago
Nope. My site doesn't use their API at all. Reddit's .json endpoints also don't require authentication (I don't actually use them either). They actually banned the user agent, which I made unique and forthcoming (literal
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by dom96 3y ago
Anyone have an invite to share for Tildes?
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by dom96 3y ago
I've been considering using Reddit data to pre-seed the content in a successor to Reddit. Though I am unsure how that would stand legally. As a side note, I created an alternative Reddit API[1] and Reddit didn't like that so much
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by dom96 3y ago
I honestly didn't expect this from Reddit. It seems like investors are really tightening their grip and they are banning subreddits and long-time users who oppose these changes left and right. I built a free API emulating the Reddit AP
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by dom96 3y ago
Reddit is planning to make their API endpoints cost a lot of money. This is a (near) free alternative.
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by dom96 3y ago
I still hope that Reddit will reverse its plans to charge money for its API, but with every passing piece of news like this it just feels less and less likely. In the interest of preparing for the worst and offering an alternative. I have c
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by dom96 3y ago
My thoughts are: the read-only unathenticated API should cover 80% of the API usage for apps. If there is adoption I will think about the authenticated portions.
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by dom96 3y ago
No, I'm not using the official API at all. I'm scraping + caching.
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by dom96 3y ago
I have come up with a plan that might get a Reddit competitor up and running. I have also started to implement it. Step 1. Create an alternative API for Reddit (I've created an MVP for this here: https://api.reddiw.com ) Ste
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by dom96 3y ago
I doubt developers will have a problem understanding these warnings.
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by dom96 3y ago
yep
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by dom96 3y ago
Can Reddit really stop alternative APIs (which are free, or near-free) from taking hold when they impose pricing on their API? I created one such API[1] and hope that at the very least it puts pressure on Reddit to reconsider their pricing
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by dom96 3y ago
Yeah, true. I'd definitely ask for legal advice before doing that.
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by dom96 3y ago
Yeah, currently the limit is 50 comments. I plan to implement the ability to choose a sort and limit, assuming the API actually gets some usage. Right now the sort is whatever the new.reddit.com default is.
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by dom96 3y ago
True, though that will seriously hurt their SEO.
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by dom96 3y ago
Yep, very similar. My guess is that ~80% of API usage is read-only, so covering this should reduce API costs significantly for developers.
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by dom96 3y ago
Not at the minute. I might open source it in the future, especially if I get a cease and desist. Though hopefully even if it comes to that someone like the EFF will help me fight it.
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by dom96 3y ago
I've only done some rudimentary rate limiting checks and it doesn't seem like they do. Though I haven't pushed it far (~1000 rpm). In any case, my plan is to deal with it if it becomes a problem.
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by dom96 3y ago
It basically scrapes reddit.com's HTML. Doesn't use the official API at all (that would defeat the purpose).
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by dom96 3y ago
Every time I see social media recreated in a decentralised fashion I realise why the successful ones are centralised. The loading times of this are dreadful and I don't see how you'll be able to solve that problem when you're
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by dom96 3y ago
Obviously forgetting about Bitcoin /s
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by dom96 3y ago
The traffic isn't even that high. It boggles my mind any time a website cannot handle it.
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by dom96 3y ago
It's actually interesting how they do it. The new and old Reddit seems surprisingly similar in how they handle at least the initial page loads. > And once you login, scraping will earn a ban. Reddit is also very over zealous with IP
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by dom96 3y ago
That's another option. Scraping the webpages isn't actually that difficult (though admittedly it is likely to be less reliable).
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by dom96 3y ago
I've been following this since it erupted and am currently developing something that I hope will either enable the Reddit community to transition to a new home or force Reddit to abandon its paid API plans. The first step in my plan is
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by dom96 3y ago
They are likely still hoping Reddit will back down. But if they don't this is a very real possibility.
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by dom96 3y ago
Honestly I am surprised that the demand for Raspberry Pis is this high. Where are all these Pis going?

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