Reddit says that it'll begin charging certain developers and organizations for access to its user-generated content.
  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I used to think projects like Nitter or NewPipe were a bit overzealous, scraping the webpage or using the webpage’s API rather than the official API, but it’s starting to look like simply less of a pain in the butt. 🙃

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, I just could not imagine a scenario where these companies would close up their API. You don’t offer an API as a service toward others. You offer it, so 3rd party devs don’t scrape your webpage, which is not an ‘API’ you want to keep stable. It’s a service toward your own devs.