RedditRepostSleuth VS newsit

Compare RedditRepostSleuth vs newsit and see what are their differences.

RedditRepostSleuth

A high performance repost detection and administration bot for Reddit. (by barrycarey)

newsit

Chrome Extension for Hacker News and Reddit Links (by benwinding)
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RedditRepostSleuth newsit
57 6
165 23
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7.6 1.6
17 days ago 11 months ago
Python TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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RedditRepostSleuth

Posts with mentions or reviews of RedditRepostSleuth. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-08.

newsit

Posts with mentions or reviews of newsit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-09.
  • Update 4: RedReader granted non-commercial accessibility exemption
    5 projects | /r/RedReader | 9 Jun 2023
    On Firefox there is Newsit & Reddit Checker.
  • Nyxt browser annotations beat pen and paper, believe me
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Feb 2022
    Something I've always wanted to work on was a browser extension that allowed things like this to happen collaboratively. There's stuff like PeerLibrary[0] that lets you annotate things as a group, but it's limited to publications and things you upload. Nyxt seems to meet what I want but lacks the collaborative aspect I'm looking for.

    There's a couple of Browser extensions that have sorta tried to accomplish this before. Epiverse[1] seems to be the most polished one so far. It originally intended to allow any user to comment on any webpage. But it found that without existing content, few found it useful. So eventually the creator just parsed to see if the webpage was posted on Reddit or Hackernews. The original purpose of it ended up being too expensive to host so it ended up just becoming a HN/Reddit parser. Which, tbh, is basically what I want to build at this point. I'd love to contribute to the project, but I don't have much time and it's closed source

    The other similar extensions also just parse HN/Reddit like Newsit[2] (which is open-source) and Thredd[3] (which only parses Reddit). My only real addition to this is that I'd like to include the ability to parse more than just Reddit and HN. I wanna create a discussion aggregator. There's similar sites like Lobste.rs and Lemmy.ml that could also be parsed, but obviously that's not the full extent of where discussions happen around a webpage.

    I don't think I have it figured out, and I don't know if anyone ever will, but I think there's a lot to gain if someone is able to someday harness that feeling that you get when you read something really good or find something really cool and wanna see how others responded

    [0] https://peerlibrary.org/

    [1] https://epiverse.co/

    [2] https://newsit.benwinding.com/

    [3] https://thredd.io/

  • Here's an article that might be of interest
    2 projects | /r/freebsd | 22 Jul 2021
    I often use Newsit to tell whether something has been posted.
  • Show HN: Privacy-preserving browser extension linking to HN discussion
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2021
    Nice, so it periodically retrieves a list of HN posts and queries that list locally, so you're not telling algolia any specific site details.

    There are millions of posts on HN, how many submissions does it retrieve? Surely if you find an obscure site, it might not be in the local list.

    Maybe you could just always query many urls together, with only 1 of them being the real url you want. That would make it hard to track too.

    Also I made a similar extension, but it queries sources on every page load.

    (extension) https://newsit.benwinding.com/

    (source) https://github.com/benwinding/newsit

  • Ask HN: Is anyone still using Gulp?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2021
    Yeah that's true, I mean I use gulp for browser extension builds, as there's a few random tasks (img compression, copying files, babel) that need to be done in order to build cross platform. Would be a pain in webpack.

    My example: https://github.com/benwinding/newsit/blob/master/gulpfile.js

What are some alternatives?

When comparing RedditRepostSleuth and newsit you can also consider the following projects:

search-by-image - Browser extension for reverse image search, available for Chrome, Edge and Safari

minwiz - Minimal starter kit for under 2 KB sites

reddit-awards - A collection of High-Quality Reddit Awards with coins, names, descriptions, categories, and art.

log-context-injection-test

repostchecker - From the same page, check whether a Reddit post can be detected as a repost using the undocumented repostsleuth API, with ease. Chrome extension. Reddit API changes have probably affected this.

Reddit-Enhancement-Suite - Reddit Enhancement Suite

hackernews-button - Privacy-preserving Firefox extension linking to Hacker News discussion; built with Bloom filters and WebAssembly

xorfilter - Go library implementing binary fuse and xor filters

thredd - Collaborative Browsing

openjdk - Microsoft Build of OpenJDK

promnesia - Another piece of your extended mind