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1 year agoThey could have even made a profit from third party apps if the pricing wasn’t 100x a reasonable rate.
They could have even made a profit from third party apps if the pricing wasn’t 100x a reasonable rate.
For Reddit API calls are near infinitely less load on the servers than scraping.
When using the API you just request what you’re looking for. With scraping you load everything repeatedly.