Reddit 3rd party apps: is it worth looking at a non-API solution?
Presumably this API trick with RedReader will stop working at some point, possibly soon. We survived the recent purges, but for how long!
I am far from an expert, but is it now a better longterm solution to just have an app that behaves as a scraper rather than use the API? Essentially a browser frontend for old.reddit? I was surprised to find that Gemini in Android Studio was able to one-shot an incredibly good looking version of RIF, that actually functions as you can see in the screenshot below. It doesn't have login functionality (the orange upvote colour is hallucinated) and it only shows one subreddit, but the data is actually real and being scraped from reddit. And this is just a one-shot from one prompt
I'm just curious if people in the community think this approach is worth looking at. Thanks and apologies if this is the wrong place for this post
Posted Jun 5, 2026, 7:18 AM UTC