Comment on Unofficial Reddit API
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 4 months agoWouldn’t those other options be C&D’d?
*I am a layman
Comment on Unofficial Reddit API
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 4 months agoWouldn’t those other options be C&D’d?
*I am a layman
EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I suspect that any of the methods proposed here would be prone to a C&D, but the safest legally would probably be the RSS method (not a lawyer though). Reddit’s RSS feeds are public, documented, and available without the need for authentication or an API key, so I don’t see how they could claim that a wrapper is unauthorised/illegal. Documenting their private API however seems like a gray area. Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. found that APIs are copyrightable, but this use may constitute fair use.