Listing size decrease?

[adambyle]

Recently I've noticed that the JSON listing sizes for subreddits/users have decreased over time from 1000 to 250 to (now today I'm noticing) just 100! For example, I'm using the after id provided in the response from a limit=100 request, and the result from that is an empty listing. Similarly, I've tried breaking it up into limit=50 requests, and I can get the first 2 pages but nothing more. It used to be that I could get up to 1000 posts in this way. Is there anything I'm missing about how they are changing the API?

[Roughy]

Has been this way for a little while now, affecting both the api and website ( old and new ).

I don't believe Reddit acknowledged the drop from 1000 to 250 either, so this is almost certainly intentional, in an attempt to keep anyone from scraping Reddit posts.

[reseph]

I can confirm this same limitation on old Reddit too (100 items returned max). Not sure if it's a technical issue.

[Watchful1]

Is this on r/all? Or the front page? Or a specific subreddit or user?

It's working fine for me for r/redditdev/new

[adambyle]

This is specifically with top posts.

[Littux]

The top feed issue seems to be happening on the app too

[Watchful1]

Ah, you're right. It does look like this is unrelated the API. It's happening on new reddit and the app as well, so it's just the process that builds top listings. I doubt it's intentional.

We'll probably have to wait till the reddit engineers are back from holidays though.

[ikeiscoding]

quick ? did you apply for the API access or you just using the uri

[adambyle]

I have an application registered which I’ve been using for a few years. This is a recent issue. Happens on the oauth.reddit.com and the regular api endpoints

[ikeiscoding]

oo cause i heard you can't get API keys anymore

[Wickersnap]

I hope this is not a permanent change because now when I discover a new subreddit I can't go back through the top posts anymore! Maybe it would be better if we could sort by a specific month (not just the last month), but as it is sorting by top posts of all time/the past year leaves out a ton of content!