I want to make a bot to crosspost most voted news/links from Reddit. I’m interested in crypto and economics. It will be allowed?

    • @huojtkegOP
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      22 years ago

      Yeah, the changes in the API and the official Reddit client are the main reasons to use Lemmy for me. I’m thinking in scrapping the HTML version but I didn’t try yet.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        They’re trying to combat web scraping with rate limits. It might be VERY slow. Doesn’t hurt to try though.

        • Danacus
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          02 years ago

          If scraping is slow, doesn’t that mean browsing reddit will also be slow?

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            Rate limits mean that it works normally until you hit whatever number they set (let’s say 1000). Then you hit an “Oops! You were browsing too fast!” message and have to wait.

    • @kiwifoxtrot
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      12 years ago

      That’s incorrect. You can request a free API key that’s limited to 100 calls per minute per app.