reddit/reddit — Issue #294: .json API returns significantly different results than browser
Author: tibbon
Created: 2011-12-22 23:58:45+00:00
State: open

It would appear that the JSON API returns very different results than the browser.

Put this URL in your browser and look at the results, then try it with API Kitchen, Curl, Mechanize, etc

http://www.reddit.com/r/guitar/new/.json?limit=100

You get 100 results with the browser. Using the non-browser methods of retrieving it gets you 1-2 results.

Is this a bug, or intentional design to limit what web crawlers gather from Reddit? On larger subreddits, it makes for incredibly inconsistent results, and the "after" parameter is inaccurate then for paging, resulting in a ton of duplicate results.