okcool@kbin.social to Reddit Migration@kbin.social · 1 year agoReddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps”www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up1245file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mlreddit@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.orgtechnology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1245external-linkReddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps”www.theverge.comokcool@kbin.social to Reddit Migration@kbin.social · 1 year agomessage-square91fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mlreddit@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.orgtechnology@beehaw.org
minus-squarenvimdiesel@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoHe’s a liar, there is no way the would have let 3rd party apps use their API for over a decade if they “didn’t mean for 3rd party apps…”
minus-squareOmnipotentEntity@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year ago We’re happy to have API clients, crawlers, scrapers, and browser extensions, but they have to obey some rules: Emphasis mine. From the official, archived documentation here: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/API
He’s a liar, there is no way the would have let 3rd party apps use their API for over a decade if they “didn’t mean for 3rd party apps…”
Emphasis mine. From the official, archived documentation here:
https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/API