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Unofficial Reddit API (github.com)
submitted 4 months ago by AnonCoder1337@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I am making a Unofficial Reddit API, which mimics the official one.

Its early days, but I would like to have a discussion here about it since my post was blocked on reddit(of course).

Let me know what you think of the project, if you have any input, let me know.

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[โ€“] AnonCoder1337@discuss.online 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because we need to retain the breadth of functionality the API has, if you want to just scrape posts, APIs for that already exist, but i am aiming for something more.

About reverse engineering, they can change that part at any time too, and may be even more fragile as they can change that without breaking the UX, if they change the front page CSS selectors or layout for example, it will effect the UX more as it changes the expected output, not the middle end that is just raw data.

Thats my reasoning, I appreciate the input though (:

[โ€“] EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 months ago

Making a breaking change to the mobile API alao breaks old outdated installations of the app. Websites and their APIs are usually synced, apps not so.

If they were really motivated to stop your method, they could just obfuscate the frontend with webpack and break your scraper every time they make an update.