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?
If you automate it, you are possibly taking some risk: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/179700
Is breaking laws against the rules?
Thank you for the link. I will copy links to newspapers only. I don’t see any risk on that.
Still the same thing. The law may see value in the curation of content that Reddit provides, even though they don’t produce the content themselves. But if that is an issue is something only a lawyer can tell you.
If you use the API it will only work until the end of the month.
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.
They’re trying to combat web scraping with rate limits. It might be VERY slow. Doesn’t hurt to try though.
If scraping is slow, doesn’t that mean browsing reddit will also be slow?
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.
That’s incorrect. You can request a free API key that’s limited to 100 calls per minute per app.
@kiwifoxtrot @Veritas assuming you already had a key, I’ve heard people are waiting months for dev approval even before it hit the fan
I don’t have any particular issue with it, however we have to be aware that the people who posted it to reddit didn’t necessarily consent to it being posted here…
They sure did. when they posted it publicly.
I think so. I think I’ve seen others doing it before lol
