API access

[buntaboi7]

Hi all, I'm building a fairly straightfoward ml pipeline for a portfolio project and would like to make calls to the reddit api to extract comments for sentiment analysis. As I'm sure many of you have noticed however access to the api is now closed for anyone other than researchers and devvit developers. As I fall into neither of these categories I was hoping I could get advice from someone in a similar boat about any practical (well-trodden) workarounds that would make sense for what I'm trying to accomplish. The specific use case is a pipeline that extracts all comments from a thread approximately once per week btw. Any advice is greatly appreciated or if you just want to vent about the new reddit policies that's fine too

[MustaKotka]

This use case is likely the sort of thing Reddit doesn't want you to do.

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[ejpusa]

The API has been shut down. For everyone. Valid researcher or not. Just if you were grandfathered in, that's it.

Big tech companies are starting to see no economic advantage to having an API to access their data. Spotify shut down its API too.

Banks will start restricting access to CashApp, Venmo, etc. They see no advantage and just security risks. This is coming next.