EDIT: This language also appears in the very first revision of this page, dated Jun 16, 2011.
EDIT: The initial checkin of the open source reddit API includes functions for voting, hiding and unhiding posts, changing passwords, registering, marking other users as friends, and so on. These are actions that scraping bots are far less likely to need as compared to third party clients.
This code is dated June 18, 2008. Reddit was designed for third party clients for as long as it has had a public API.
He’s a liar, there is no way the would have let 3rd party apps use their API for over a decade if they “didn’t mean for 3rd party apps…”
Emphasis mine. From the official, archived documentation here:
https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/API
EDIT: This language also appears in the very first revision of this page, dated Jun 16, 2011.
EDIT: The initial checkin of the open source reddit API includes functions for voting, hiding and unhiding posts, changing passwords, registering, marking other users as friends, and so on. These are actions that scraping bots are far less likely to need as compared to third party clients.
This code is dated June 18, 2008. Reddit was designed for third party clients for as long as it has had a public API.