Hey there, psp!
Ah, I do have VDH but I don't think their format really works for archiving entire users or subreddits. Although, I'm not aware of any other proper full archiving software out there that works as efficiently as these two (or as these two did/do, lol).
The most important bit, as far as I'm concerned, is the proper filenaming system among other things and imo, BDFR making it customisable like {DATE}{USERNAME}{POSTID} etc is a pretty neat feature. If anything though, VDH is really good at fetching HLS links. Haha.
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Originally Posted by pspzockerscene
Do they provide an official API?
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As far as I know, they do. This docs page might be a good start: **External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**
There is also a feature where you can connect an "app" to your reddit account if you go over to **External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**. Not sure what other benefits it gives yet aside from maybe accessing private/restricted subreddits your account is a member in and maybe bypassing captchas(?).
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Originally Posted by pspzockerscene
Do they mind ppl. downloading their content or do they not care?
I've even seen public reddit downloader bots on reddit itself so it seems like they at least don't try to stop ppl. from downloading the content ... after all it's all user-generated anyways.
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I'm not that active on Reddit, especially on meta things about Reddit, but I've not been aware of any rules disallowing sniffing out content either from users or entire subreddits. I think they're more concerned on trying to monetise the site properly and keeping a distinction between regular and NSFW content.
If you go over at r/datahoarder, you can even sometimes see discussions about archiving some users or communities.
There are also entire reddit archivers that exist like ceddit.com, unreddit.com, removeddit.com, etc. that works like WayBack Machine and can even show you mod-deleted comments.
So, I guess it'd be pretty safe to assume that Reddit doesn't care about this stuff, at least for now. And even then, most of the content are uploaded on third-party hosts (imgur, gfycat, redgifs, etc.) which is out of their jurisdiction in the first place anyway.
Really hope you lot would take an interest in this.