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.

  • Emily (she/her)
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    5 months ago

    Making a breaking change to the mobile API also breaks old outdated installations of the app.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.