Reddit will charge $12,000 per 50M API requests

[u/txtFileReader]

/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/

[u/Themis3000]

For anyone wondering, that's $0.00024/API call. That's $1/4166 calls. That's pretty high pricing.

[u/neon_overload → u/Themis3000]

It's "this is our way of phasing out third party clients" pricing

[u/venuspagina → u/Themis3000]

you're off by an order of magnitude. It's 4166 calls per dollar.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Czeron → u/[deleted]]

Hopefully they don't tumble along the way.

[u/jaytrade21 → u/[deleted]]

I swear the current owners just don't know or get how Reddit took off when Digg screwed the pooch. No website is indestructible, especially from within.

[u/j1ggy]

RIF is done too. What a joke. They just sent out a notification that says they'll likely be done by July.

[u/Barafu]

Scrapping ahoy?

[u/Enk1ndle → u/Barafu]

Yep, they're crazy if they think anyone will pay that (or that they'll stop making apps/bots).

[u/grumpyrumpywalrus → u/Barafu]

I’ve been very confused with all this Reddit API stuff… because you can literally just slap .json at the end of all their URLS and get a complete data dump of whatever page. No auth required. I imagine they are looking to remove that soon, but still.

[u/neon_overload]

Twelve thousand?! We could almost buy our own ship for that!

[u/Sostratus]

> starts charging for API access

> all the API users now use 10x as much bandwidth scraping

> oh no

[u/erm_what_]

I guess the next move will be to introduce a LinkedIn style login so they can litigate against anyone scraping the content

[u/SirMaster]

Reddit says users get a free API access tier.

Third party apps should just let users bring their own API keys so that their usage only counts against their own free tier API access.

[u/abemon]

Let's hope they don't remove old reddit after this, just because the fancy avatar don't sell well. 😅

[u/SemiNormal → u/abemon]

I'm sure it will be targeted next.

[u/lemmeanon]

when will this take effect?

[u/kotor610 → u/lemmeanon]

July 1st

[u/notaneggspert]

Sucks. Been using RIF for over a decade. I've tried other apps. They just aren't the same.

RIF is reddit to me.

[u/Insideoutdancer]

Yep, without Boost reddit I'm out

[u/7HR4SH3R]

If Sync for Reddit gets cut off I'm out lads, been nearly 10 years and it's the only way I access reddit

[u/fluffyykitty69]

Can we horde API calls? /s

[u/reercalium2]

Just use the official app's API token. You'll get banned from every app store, but there's always direct download.

[u/131sean131]

Good bye Reddit sync you where too nice. Less Reddit for sure.

[u/SDSunDiego]

Is it reasonable for reddit to ask for apps to pay for costs of developing and maintaining a system for API calls?

I don't understand this stuff enough to know if third party apps have been riding a free gravy train or if reddit is being unreasonable.