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View submission: An Update Regarding Reddit’s API
Because that logged-in user could still scrape a large list of URLs that then can be published and viewed by anyone.
Comment by Bardfinn at 18/04/2023 at 18:15 UTC
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Exactly.
In the past, any and all photos published to Reddit in posts and galleries and comments are/were retrievable without being logged in, without being authenticated.
If it started with https://i.redd.it/ and ended with .webm, .png, or .jpg — anyone could retrieve it.
Going forward, material uploaded to NSFW communities will not be accessible via direct URL https://i.redd.it/whatever.png unless authenticated and the user has indicated they wish to see NSFW material and is legally allowed to do so.
Comment by Jaggedmallard26 at 19/04/2023 at 09:32 UTC
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You can scrape without the API or watermarks just by parsing the server responses like an old school crawler bot.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/04/2023 at 14:42 UTC
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