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Is crosspost from Reddit allowed? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by huojtkeg@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I want to make a bot to crosspost most voted news/links from Reddit. I'm interested in crypto and economics. It will be allowed?

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[–] huojtkeg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, the changes in the API and the official Reddit client are the main reasons to use Lemmy for me. I'm thinking in scrapping the HTML version but I didn't try yet.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're trying to combat web scraping with rate limits. It might be VERY slow. Doesn't hurt to try though.

[–] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If scraping is slow, doesn't that mean browsing reddit will also be slow?

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Rate limits mean that it works normally until you hit whatever number they set (let's say 1000). Then you hit an "Oops! You were browsing too fast!" message and have to wait.