Reverse engineering Reddit's mobile API

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So I want to reverse engineer the mobile API of the social media platform Reddit and I’m just wondering if you guys have any tips for me if there is anyone here with any kind of experience with doing something similar to this. I’ve been doing some tests and I feel like it’s going to be pretty easy because I’ve done a lot of automation with APIs in the past but actually reverse engineering might be a little bit different. I’ve been looking at the request the device makes when you for example, want to create a post on Reddit and it creates a lot of request. besides, the actual post request, so I’m just wondering if there is anything I should be more careful with.If there is anyone here with a similar experience, maybe on a different social media platform because I know you guys that are gaming Reddit are not going to give any free sauce away, but yeah I’d appreciate any help.
 
It depends on what you will use Reddit Mobile API for.
If you are using it to create an account, you need to be very careful because reddit tracks your every request and can easily tell if you are a human or a robot.

But if you just want to use it for upvotes, comments or simpler actions, you can already do it with reddit's new interface because they use the same GraphQL. There won't be a difference and you won't need to put a lot of effort.
 
It depends on what you will use Reddit Mobile API for.
If you are using it to create an account, you need to be very careful because reddit tracks your every request and can easily tell if you are a human or a robot.

But if you just want to use it for upvotes, comments or simpler actions, you can already do it with reddit's new interface because they use the same GraphQL. There won't be a difference and you won't need to put a lot of effort.
Thanks for the info. Greatly appreciated! I'm going to start using it for commenting first, then posting. Do you have any experience with account creation?
 
Of course I can say that I have experience because I'm only interested in Reddit at the moment. I was unsuccessful and within 1 hour the account was suspended because I was wrong at some point and I'm sure of it but I don't know exactly where I was wrong. If you want I can provide you with a Secret Key for the hash, I still have it. It was very easy to get it anyway.

in 1 hour banned = trash creation
in 6 hour banned = a little trash creation, change method
in 24 hour banned = good creation but change method :)

if you pass 24 hours, everything is good.

I'm not working with mobile right now, I'm on the web and it's zero problems. My accounts are not banned and I can create as many as I want. But I am not aggressive when creating an account, let's say it's a private key :))

I analyzed it for a long time with solid logs and got these results.

I say again, don't waste time with mobile. The event system works very flawlessly.
 
Of course I can say that I have experience because I'm only interested in Reddit at the moment. I was unsuccessful and within 1 hour the account was suspended because I was wrong at some point and I'm sure of it but I don't know exactly where I was wrong. If you want I can provide you with a Secret Key for the hash, I still have it. It was very easy to get it anyway.

in 1 hour banned = trash creation
in 6 hour banned = a little trash creation, change method
in 24 hour banned = good creation but change method :)

if you pass 24 hours, everything is good.

I'm not working with mobile right now, I'm on the web and it's zero problems. My accounts are not banned and I can create as many as I want. But I am not aggressive when creating an account, let's say it's a private key :))

I analyzed it for a long time with solid logs and got these results.

I say again, don't waste time with mobile. The event system works very flawlessly.
Dm me if you can PeraNETWORK - happy to pay $$ for your time on this.
 
So I want to reverse engineer the mobile API of the social media platform Reddit and I’m just wondering if you guys have any tips for me if there is anyone here with any kind of experience with doing something similar to this. I’ve been doing some tests and I feel like it’s going to be pretty easy because I’ve done a lot of automation with APIs in the past but actually reverse engineering might be a little bit different. I’ve been looking at the request the device makes when you for example, want to create a post on Reddit and it creates a lot of request. besides, the actual post request, so I’m just wondering if there is anything I should be more careful with.If there is anyone here with a similar experience, maybe on a different social media platform because I know you guys that are gaming Reddit are not going to give any free sauce away, but yeah I’d appreciate any help.
We can network my friend
 
So I want to reverse engineer the mobile API of the social media platform Reddit and I’m just wondering if you guys have any tips for me if there is anyone here with any kind of experience with doing something similar to this. I’ve been doing some tests and I feel like it’s going to be pretty easy because I’ve done a lot of automation with APIs in the past but actually reverse engineering might be a little bit different. I’ve been looking at the request the device makes when you for example, want to create a post on Reddit and it creates a lot of request. besides, the actual post request, so I’m just wondering if there is anything I should be more careful with.If there is anyone here with a similar experience, maybe on a different social media platform because I know you guys that are gaming Reddit are not going to give any free sauce away, but yeah I’d appreciate any help.
There is 2 algorithms on authorization and a "surprise mechanic" that will cause your accounts to get banned if not implemented correctly. I advise you to use puppeteer unless you want to waste the next weeks scratching your head
 
So I want to reverse engineer the mobile API of the social media platform Reddit and I’m just wondering if you guys have any tips for me if there is anyone here with any kind of experience with doing something similar to this. I’ve been doing some tests and I feel like it’s going to be pretty easy because I’ve done a lot of automation with APIs in the past but actually reverse engineering might be a little bit different. I’ve been looking at the request the device makes when you for example, want to create a post on Reddit and it creates a lot of request. besides, the actual post request, so I’m just wondering if there is anything I should be more careful with.If there is anyone here with a similar experience, maybe on a different social media platform because I know you guys that are gaming Reddit are not going to give any free sauce away, but yeah I’d appreciate any help.
what do you want to reverse engineer reddit? jus tcreate scripts like selenium
 
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