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Re:Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat t... by Semaphor on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:22AM (#36197532)
That is what the 3rd party dev has to implement, Reddit already has a premium feature, but there is no api-unlock, there is just dev payments. That’s a big part of the issue. If people paying Reddit would unlock api access, most issues would disappear.
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Re:Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat t... by Eisenstein on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:33PM (#36204061)
Every reddit account gets API access with OAth. No payment needed.
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Re:Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat t... by Semaphor on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:13PM (#36207195)
Uh, no, that’s the upcoming change.
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Re:Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat t... by Eisenstein on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @01:49AM (#36208664)
Sorry friend, you are incorrect.

* https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/13wshdp/api_update...

"If you are using OAuth for authentication: 100 queries per minute per OAuth client id

If you are not using OAuth for authentication: 10 queries per minute"

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Re:Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat t... by Semaphor on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @02:03AM (#36208752)
Wait, what? This is news to me. Why is this not mentioned anywhere? How does this not solve this for almost everyone? I already authenticate through oAuth anyway, wouldn’t this then just require inputting my own API key?

edit: Ah, it also requires applying for an API key on their support website which may or may not be granted to you by Reddit and might take some amount of time. That is not comparable to having proper API access.

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Re:Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat t... by Semaphor on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:06AM (#36209675)
And even worse, it’s not clear you are even allowed to use your own API access with a third party API, the ToS might forbid that as it’s not your (the person requesting the API key) app you are using it for, but someone else. That would make the whole thing completely useless.
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