this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you hear about the recent Reddit API changes, by any chance?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

If you use a personal api token that only you are using it shouldn't have enough usage to cost anything

Even if it did cause an issue. Web scrapping is viable too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Failing that, there’s always a combo of wayback machine, reveddit etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is "scrapping" autocorrect, a typo, or intended? Not meaning to be rude just interested because I've only heard of "web scraping" but often see people write "scrapping".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not autocorrect. Just my half ass way of shortening the phrase

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't know you could generate a personal token.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My bad. Wrong choice of words. I meant an api access key that only you are using