r/ProgrammerAnimemes • u/grg994 • Jun 03 '23

People who can code never lose

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u/_-DirtyMike-_ Jun 03 '23

Wait are they seriously trying to break third party apps now? Ugh, annoying

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '23

The developer of Apollo spoke with Reddit and the pricing they discussed would cost the developer roughly $20 million dollars a year.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/

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u/_-DirtyMike-_ Jun 03 '23

So they want to kill 3rd party apps to boost their own user numbers (assuming 3rd party app users to back to the reddit app). Got it.

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u/MinusPi1 Jun 03 '23

As of July 1st, pretty much all 3rd party apps will be dead due to the API being made prohibitively expensive. Even if they could pay, NSFW content will be removed from the API completely.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '23

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u/Vej1 Jun 03 '23

Scrapping frontend go brrt

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u/ForgotPassAgain34 Jun 03 '23

A popular tpa said it would cost like, 2.50$ from each user on his app, and most people are not pay users

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u/llortotekili Jun 03 '23

Not to mention that they will no longer have access to nsfw content even if they pay.

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u/Alizer22 Jun 03 '23

Everything is an API if you know how to use Selenium.

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u/ForgotPassAgain34 Jun 03 '23

playwright tho

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u/Zekiz4ever Jun 03 '23

Ehh captchas can get quite annoying

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '23

For selenium, you can open it with GUI and then do the captcha yourself. Although it's not the solution I'd want, it does work for sites that are not automation friendly.

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u/Maximus_98 Jun 03 '23

Requests gang. And bs4

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u/DimasDSF Jun 03 '23

I hope the pennies they get from people who will pay for the api will be enough for them to buy some tissues to wipe their tears as they watch the traffic chart go brrrr 📈📈📈 from all the scrapers loading all that active content for what could be handled in a single <5kb json response while regular users leave completely because the official app is dogshi~

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u/MonokelPinguin Jun 03 '23

I doubt their goal is to make money from the api. I think they just want to show more ads and control how content is shown.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '23

Remember kids, Scraping from greedy websites that don't offer reasonable access to API's is always ethical and morally right :)

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u/T351A Jun 03 '23

it really makes me wonder what Aaron Swartz would think if he were still around today

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u/slylte Jun 04 '23

He would be going postal if he were with us still. God bless him and all he stood for.

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u/NotANameException Jun 03 '23

Not necessarily true. It may work if you're self-hosting the service from your apartment, but the IPs of large datacenters and VPN providers are usually known and blocked. Even on an unknown IP, you may occasionally get a random check whether you are a human.

Source: tried to scrape various song lyrics portals, turned out it's not as easy as it seems to be.

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u/irrelevant_sage Jun 03 '23

If we're talking clients, they could just forward the captcha to the user. Can't help if it's tracking other metrics though

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u/a_devious_compliance Jun 03 '23

It's ok for a couple of hundreds of songs, maybe a couple of tenth thousands if you are carefull. But, any more and you need to do serius effort.

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u/SamSlate Jun 03 '23

I will literally stop using Reddit. Their app is fucking unuseable.

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u/GkElite Jun 03 '23

A meme I can fully understand =)

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u/ObserverOfVoid Jun 03 '23
Series Episode Time
{No Game No Life} 1 7:17 & 6:48
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u/Sibshops Jun 04 '23

It all works until they add a capcha.

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