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I'm Scraping all of Reddit

This was the last backend I wanted to add. That's a lot of traffic! I'm monitoring logs closely, expecting the unexpected.

There was no open source Go library for the Reddit API, so I had to write my own. I'll open source it shortly, after I iron out the details.

Now it's time to get out there and find more users.

, Founder of Icon for Syften
Syften
on June 15, 2019
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    Anyone know how to get all the subreddit using API? Like Autocomplete search subreddits

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    This is great! I've already signed up to see if anybody mentions me :P

    By the way, I've seen Indie Hackers is not on your monitoring list

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    Are you using something like proxycrawl to get around the reddit limits? Or how do you do it?

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      If you connect authenticated with oauth then the limits are much more generous - and sufficient for my needs.

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    This is a great idea... You could also probably get away with just selling your own API to access the data for these platforms too.

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      Cool idea! I added an API just now, check it out :)

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    I have always been curious on how much traffic hacker news gets. They seem very secretive.

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      About 4M visits per day. The data is available here: https://twitter.com/yazijys/status/1135976760162553856

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    How do you store the data? Elasticsearch?

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      I don't store the data, luckily I have no need. I just match the keywords as new posts arrive.

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