The newly announced "Public Content Policy" will now join Reddit's existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit's data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and other partners.
Well that’s part of the thing. Web scraping doesn’t get covered by policies. Like, they could ban your ip or any accounts you have, but web scraping itself will always be acceptable. It’s why projects like NewPipe and Invidious don’t care about YouTube cease and desist letters.
I tried that on my desktop. So long as you are not actually logged in you cannot see the communities that are too small for a review or too adult after a review.
Parsing absolutely comes with a lot more overhead. Especially since many websites integrate a lot of JS interactivity nowadays, you oftentimes don’t get the full contents you’re looking for straight out of the HTML you’re getting out of your HTTP request, depending on the site.
Well that’s part of the thing. Web scraping doesn’t get covered by policies. Like, they could ban your ip or any accounts you have, but web scraping itself will always be acceptable. It’s why projects like NewPipe and Invidious don’t care about YouTube cease and desist letters.
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Yea, I’ve seen those pop-ups when trying to find something out. It sucks but isn’t a significant barrier to web scraping
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I tried that on my desktop. So long as you are not actually logged in you cannot see the communities that are too small for a review or too adult after a review.
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In what way?
HTML definitely provides more overhead than json if you only care about the data.
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Parsing absolutely comes with a lot more overhead. Especially since many websites integrate a lot of JS interactivity nowadays, you oftentimes don’t get the full contents you’re looking for straight out of the HTML you’re getting out of your HTTP request, depending on the site.
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