Comment by LYejMdJ3WLId7g91qfsL on 05/08/2015 at 22:03 UTC

18 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)

View submission: Quarantined content will be unavailable through the API unless opted-in

This is really annoying that it's only returning `error: 404` and not something like `error: "quarantined"`.

And an endpoint to disable quarantine for that sub or globally could really, really help.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements.json?sort=hot&limit=100&jsonp=hi

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/kiketown.json?sort=hot&limit=100&jsonp=hi

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Comment by DBrady at 05/08/2015 at 22:10 UTC

9 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Agreed. A separate error message is needed so some explanation can be given to the user on mobile clients.

Comment by lecherous_hump at 06/08/2015 at 07:06 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Damn, I didn't know regular json links (appending .json to any link on reddit.com) also qualified as API access. I actually just spent an hour writing a workaround to use that before I read this.

Comment by tdohz at 11/08/2015 at 20:47 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

This is really annoying that it's only returning error: 404 and not something like error: "quarantined".

FYI, we now return a 403[1] instead of a 404. I know our error codes could be more informative; nothing to announce now but it's definitely on our radar.

1: https://www.reddit.com/live/ukaeu1ik4sw5/updates/d0760522-3f84-11e5-98ea-0e8ad82823eb