CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company
That “corpus of data” is the content posted by millions of Reddit users over the decades. It is a fascinating and valuable record of what they were thinking and obsessing about. Not the tiniest fraction of it was created by Huffman, his fellow executives or shareholders. It can only be seen as belonging to them because of whatever skewed “consent” agreement its credulous users felt obliged to click on before they could use the service.
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It’s not that simple, because the third party apps ship with a single api key. So I used Relay for reddit, and used the same api key as everyone else on that app. You could create an app, and then have everyone make their own key, but that is just asking for trouble. Definitely too technical for most people, and you would probably need to put in billing info for a scenario where you go above the free-tier call limit.
Yeah but if you’re going to use the oauth 2 method you don’t use the same API key as everyone, how that works is you authorize your account with the bot, the company gives you a bearer token and then that token is what’s used for rate limits. The Bot client token is not used in that process, the oauth2 bearer token is
this is taken from the reddit Api docs: As of July 1, 2023, we will enforce two different rate limits for those eligible for free access usage of our Data API. The limits are:
so apperently I undershot it, it’s actually 100 requests per minute not per hour like I originally thought it was