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Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by paddw on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:28PM (#36312665)
The free API is going away
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Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by wtallis on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:34PM (#36312781)
I think he was trying to be clever by referring to the standard web interface as the free HTTP API, which is true to a limited extent. It's a poorly-designed and unstable API. The use of the unpopular term "user agent" may have made it harder to understand, but I appreciate almost any opportunity to bring that term back, because it has important implications that "web browser" lacks.
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Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by googlryas on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:36PM (#36312808)
The free HTTP API I'm talking about is just GET / HTTP/1.0...aka the web interface offered by reddit.com on port 80 or 443
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Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by unmole on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @08:26PM (#36319608)
It isn't.

> Rate limits for the free tier

> All others will continue to access the Reddit Data API without cost, in accordance with our Developer Terms, at this time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_upda...

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