• if_you_can_keep_it@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    It’s funny because I just recently created a tiny web app that I run off my own computer which allows me to aggregate the feeds of any subreddit I want along with posts from Lemmy and other Reddit-like forums. Because of this, this change won’t really affect me. While I do occasionally use a third party Reddit app to surf Reddit, I mostly just use my web app and it doesn’t use any Reddit APIs but just scrapes the website directly. Only thing is I’ve heard that they might be getting rid of old Reddit. I currently scrape from old Reddit rather than the new one because the old one has easier HTML objects to identify. Still, it shouldn’t be too hard start scraping the new UI, if I have to.

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        2 years ago

        interesting. It looks like libreddit at least would be squashed.

        In that issue they’re saying “hmm I wonder if this would apply to unauthenticated API requests”.

        It seems nonsensical to me that it wouldn’t apply to unauthenticated API requests.