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Unofficial Reddit API
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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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Is there a reason you're scraping data rather than attaching a network sniffer/reverse engineering the official apps and documenting the results? Or map the RSS feed to an API? The main thrust behind my comment is that I think scraping is pretty fragile, so I'm interested as to why other options are infeasible.
Wouldn't those other options be C&D'd?
*I am a layman
This is likely to be C&D'd as well if it ever reaches the point where it does anything useful (remember, reddit doesn't need grounds that would hold up in court to send a C&D).
Don't worry, it won't be a problem. I have taken reasonable measures to ensure my anonymity. and also you can't really kill free/libre software easily anyways.
You are using github so i doubt it is really the case.
It's only mirrored on GitHub.
I know, he is also hosted on a german association with the same id. Both github and the association will have to follow the laws anyways.