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If you add .json to the end of a Reddit URL, it will return JSON data. For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/ubuntu.json . It also works with comment threads and posts.


Wonderful feature also used by Trello https://trello.com/b/rq2mYJNn/public-trello-boards.json


Now that is an ergonomic API.


Also, it outputs XML and RSS too: https://www.reddit.com/r/ubuntu.rss and https://www.reddit.com/r/ubuntu.xml


xml and rss seem to be the same exact output


I have adopted this in other projects and added the functionality there as well; it is a brilliant idea.


Yeah no need to scrape Reddit, their content is accessible via their API.


PRAW is also a great python reddit "scraper" that allows you to pull data via their API very easily.




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