reddit-api-doc-notes VS Reddit

Building an API wrapper? Check out these notes I put together and used to helped me with this endeavour.

Endpoint information: https://github.com/Pyprohly/reddit-api-doc-notes/blob/main/docs/api-reference/comment_tree.rst.

I assure you I have not been naive when developing this library. I have spent years going through and documenting the API endpoints’ responses and I like to think I have a good grasp on where, when, and what attributes are returned and by what endpoints.

Another Redditor sent me this great resource for understanding all the data fields that are output by Reddit's API endpoints. It is currently incomplete, and includes some guesswork. Apparently there is no official documentation like this (please correct me if that's wrong).

Luckily, there's some great people out there that have done that work! Check out https://github.com/Pyprohly/reddit-api-doc-notes/tree/main/docs/api-reference. It's organized in mostly the same way the official docs are.

You'll want to use /r/{subreddit}/about (official API docs here, and over here for some unofficial docs on what is returned). The field on the object that is returned that you're looking for is user_is_subscriber.

If you are looking for some documentation on the draft API endpoints, see here. A draft is created using the POST /api/v1/draft endpoint.

The information I’ve given here can be found in the detailed documentation notes I’ve been working on.

Thanks for the premium. I can now document POST saved_categories.

Slashdot, reddit, and HN are similar in that the source code was available. For HN, as part of arc under the Artistic license. All 3 abandoned public source code releases.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

While it would likely have zero overlap with the code in use today if you look at the old code Reddit used to publish for voting the model at that point used to have flags/checks for :

I've been trying to host my own instance of Reddit from archived source code on GitHub. Even though I am aware that's probably not a good idea since many dependencies are broken and there's practically no documentation on anything (and it's really old legacy code), but I still decided to give it a shot.

Shh, don't tell spez, the code is already available on the github https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/

Automod to act based on keywords/domains/etc., ideally using the same language/flags/regex/etc. of the original automod (old code) so that it's possible to use existing code. (For detecting off-topic posts, enforcing a title format, reminding the users to add missing details to post, filtering profanity, shadowbanning spammers, etc.)

Reddit pre enshittification is actually open source so spinning up your own Reddit instance should be trivially easy. I’m very surprised no one did this after the API protests started

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

There are already 1:1 reddit clones based on older versions of their software that was open source: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit