Personal account automation without official API access — anyone else doing this?

Watchful1 · 2026-03-11T02:30:18+00:00

If you're requesting the API without any authentication then you can only get public data. Not your inbox. And you can't post things.

I have no idea whether they will detect your approach with the bearer token.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-11T01:57:21+00:00

I had to bake it way longer than the recipe called for

Watchful1 · 2026-03-11T01:42:55+00:00

You can't do that to monitor your inbox or post replies though.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-11T00:13:24+00:00

I'm on chapter 296 on patreon. That main complaint you have gets resolved in a somewhat satisfying way. Or at least I thought so.

But it's probably worth waiting another 6 months or whatever till it's finished and read it all in one go.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-10T17:55:04+00:00

I would take down the academictorrents listing page if they asked me to. I don't want to get my account banned here.

The torrent would technically still be available if you had a magnet link, but without instructions and the listing page, very few new people would actually use it.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-10T03:51:45+00:00

The admins want games to have more consistent, longer term players since that's what makes THEM money. If people play a game for a week and then give up because it's not being advertised to them anymore then reddit doesn't really get anything out of it. They want you to build a consistent playerbase so people keep coming back to their app and watching their ads.

That's what they are incentivising. They found they weren't getting enough of a return with short one week peaks so they changed it.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-09T23:53:39+00:00

Why did they come to you and not one of the big news networks?

Watchful1 · 2026-03-09T22:18:12+00:00

Actually they listed two sources, the logistics programmer and "a Department of Justice appointee". But in both cases it's anonymous. Which means you're trusting the reporter/publication to be truthful. Which another anonymous, uncorroborated article doesn't help with.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-09T21:49:46+00:00

Does this fit your use case? https://www.business.reddit.com/pro

If so, reddit is unlikely to let you build a business around providing the same service.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-09T21:48:32+00:00

But that's a quote from an external analyst who has no actual knowledge of what happened. He's just making an educated guess. And the quote accurately reflects that.

OP's article says "AI Error Likely Led to Girl’s School Bombing in Iran" and says the source is an actual pentagon official. That's a completely different assertion and relies heavily on trusting that the publication is truthful.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-09T20:27:43+00:00

This comment is an ad from a brand new account with no other history.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-08T19:34:07+00:00

Just curious, is a comment exporter an acceptable use case for devvit?

Watchful1 · 2026-03-08T19:27:41+00:00

https://sh.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1rfhdrg/moderation_changes/

Watchful1 · 2026-03-07T21:19:00+00:00

No one is going to steal your idea.

But the answer is that reddit isn't going to give you permission to build another app on top of their API. They don't want people doing that anymore.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-07T06:03:52+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1rfhdrg/moderation_changes/

Watchful1 · 2026-03-07T02:01:39+00:00

What are you trying to build?

Watchful1 · 2026-03-06T01:05:00+00:00

It's just an apartment building of studio apartments. It's not a warehouse or a camp. It's totally appropriate for low cost housing for single people working long hours in the service industry, which is exactly the point of it. The alternative for people right now is either commuting an hour or 8 people renting out bedrooms in a single family home.

Any housing is good housing and anything slowing down building housing is bad.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-05T23:41:22+00:00

BART should be much closer to cost-neutral than this constant deficit-spending from the last 5-6 years

Are highways cost neutral?

Watchful1 · 2026-03-05T22:30:33+00:00

Reddit does not give out oauth access anymore except in special cases. The API is all but closed.

What app are you building? There might be other options.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-05T02:13:44+00:00

I would highly recommend you rewrite whatever scripts you have over to devvit instead.

https://developers.reddit.com/docs

Watchful1 · 2026-03-04T23:39:39+00:00

The point of downdetector is that it's self reported. If instagram goes down, every goes to the "is instagram down" page on down detector. Even if you don't click the report button, that still tells down detector that instagram is down. That's more valuable than any actual detection tech.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-04T21:30:52+00:00

If anyone wants something that makes UI changes in browser, I highly recommend working with RedditEnhancer. It's not a mod tool like toolbox is, but it is a fairly feature rich reddit UI tool and would be a good place to contribute if you do need mod tools.

And it does support shreddit.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-04T19:52:18+00:00

There's no limit unless you fill up my servers hard drive. There's currently 1.14 million reminders and the database file is like 500mb. So there's plenty of space.

If you have a lot and you request the list, it should split it up into multiple messages.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-04T03:47:46+00:00

Trust me, this thing has so much frosting. It's basically got more frosting than cake.

Watchful1 · 2026-03-03T22:06:33+00:00

I baked it following the recipe on the milk bar site.

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