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Unofficial Reddit API (github.com)
submitted 2 months ago by AnonCoder1337@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I am making a Unofficial Reddit API, which mimics the official one.

Its early days, but I would like to have a discussion here about it since my post was blocked on reddit(of course).

Let me know what you think of the project, if you have any input, let me know.

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[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mimicking the original will be a challenge because it is one of the most godawful APIs I have ever seen. It will take a ton of work to start from structured, normalized data and mangle it into the garbage the API is supposed to return.

[–] snow_bunny@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How was it compared to the Lemmy API?

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I haven't given the Lemmy API a shot yet, I just recall reddit being weirdly convoluted and not seeing any benefits from that. The documentation was not kept well either.