Those would be one API request each, and Reddit would respond with the corresponding data,” he explained.īut some say that Reddit’s new pricing model is financially untenable. “Historically, you can ask Reddit ‘Could I have the comments for this post?’ or ‘Can you list the posts in AskReddit?’.
In a Reddit post, Apollo developer Christian Selig said you can think of Reddit as a bouncer. With Apollo, an app designed for the iPhone, users can access Reddit, log in, and post like they normally do through the website. Some third-party apps, like Apollo, use Reddit’s API to allow users access to the site through their own interface. An API is software that essentially allows applications to talk with one another. More than 8,000 subreddits - including popular ones such as r/gaming, r/funny, r/aww - are going dark to protest fees that Reddit is charging for third-party access to its API, or application programming interface. If you try to access Reddit, you’ll find that many of the platform’s communities have gone private.
