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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps” (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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..."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 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