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		SirMaster on May 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing Why not just make the users pay for their own API requests? Reddit even gives each user 100 API queries per minutes for free. Why can't apps use that to access the data for each user? When I go use an app that talks to OpenAI for example, it asks me to put in my API key. So why not just do that for third party reddit apps? I think the app can just ask the user to OAuth with it and then it should be able to use that user's API access up to the free rate limits.

manmal on May 31, 2023 [–]

I suppose calls need to provide an API secret, and you need to register with Reddit (with a credit card) in order to get one.

SirMaster on May 31, 2023 | [–]

If so yeah, but that wasn't clear to me.

It sounded like an OAuth'd user gets an individual allocation of free rate limited API queries (100 per minute).

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