As I understand it, API charges are for everyone, ~~Apollo for example showed the app is within the limits, I think other app devs did the same.~~
While not wanting their data to be scraped for AI for free is indeed a valid reason, if it was the real reason they would have come up with different tiers of pricing like every other paid platform does.
Edit: Apollo was within the limits, but reddit changed the rules apparently ...
Not quite. The new rules are 100 api calls per minute per user per app. It used to be 100 api calls per minute per user. That means Apollo is limited to 100 api calls per minute for all users.
If someone were to have a private API key for personal use, it would be difficult to exceed the limit.
Ooh they changed them :O What .....
Short answer is "no".
Long answer require some technical knowledge that you clearly don't possess and would just give you an headache.
To put it simply, if your app get successful and lots of users adopt it, you are bound to exceed those arbitrary limits.
Thing is, offering free api is not sustainable but you could offer some half way option, like including some ads in the apis responses as well and have the devs agree in showing those ads (I'm talking banners and the like) so that you can assure your ads clients that they are going to be shown anyway even by third party apps.
If course you can then go nuts on the penalties for infringing that agreement.
What is Reddit doing is basically saying, you can use our APIs if you are doing a school project.
I didn't think you were being rude btw
Without looking into any information, I can guess that it is associated with API key which are registered to a specific email. Sure, you can open more email accounts and more APIs but this is becoming a hustle.
What they could do, is release their code, and for user to register their own API and compile the app on their own. But this solution would answer only tech savi people.
Couldn't they just have the app ask for the user's API key? I use a weather app that does that with OpenWeatherMap.
They could, use, but this requires extra work from the user, who might just say "nah... I'll just use the official app instead"
I think the people that would seek out a third party app are mostly the kind of people that would do the extra work of copying and pasting an API key. It will definitely be a smaller userbase than before though.
What they could do, is release their code, and for user to register their own API and compile the app on their own. But this solution would answer only tech savi people. >
The developer of Infinity for Reddit (Android app) said they were going to do just that.
Ha! Cool for them!
I guess, though, that the guys who have the skills to enjoy this are the first to switch out of reddit to begin with.
I just did this from a guide on their reddit, it was super easy...hopefully it sticks!
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