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View submission: Lets talk about those API calls
I was developing apps that use the reddit API and this was a wake up call. I cannot rely on 1 API for data.
Luckily I found this piece on techcrunch;
It's not a blanket policy change. As reported by The New York Times, Reddit's API will remain free to developers who want to build apps and bots that help people use Reddit, as well as to researchers who wish to study Reddit for strictly academic or noncommercial purposes.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/reddit-will-begin-charging-for-access-to-its-api/
Comment by mmmmmmBacon12345 at 05/06/2023 at 23:51 UTC
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100 queries/minute is really low for any useful bot. ~~Flairbot~~ /u/flair_helper is on probably hundreds of subs and each removal is at least 4 queries, it can't survive on the limited level
So then it's pushed to paid. At a low 1000 removals per day across all the subs it'd do 1.5M queries per year. At $12k/50M queries that's $360/year for a bot that costs subs nothing and earns no money
Tools get rate limited and charged but spammers? Can't risk rate limiting those
Comment by Meepster23 at 05/06/2023 at 23:38 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I mean... Apollo helps people use Reddit and they want $20 million for it haha