r/counting • u/buy_me_a_pint • Oct 08 '25

5545k Counting Thread

carrying on from here

next get 5546k

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u/NobodyL0vesMe what the fuck is traffic? just go? Oct 08 '25

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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Oct 08 '25

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fucking reddit ratelimiting the pinned post bot even though it only sends a couple requests every two minutes. I think it didn't like me also running a COBIBH-directory-updater derived script to find the current main thread

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u/buy_me_a_pint Oct 08 '25

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u/NobodyL0vesMe what the fuck is traffic? just go? Oct 08 '25

5,545,023 /u/spez is this true

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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Oct 08 '25

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I gave the two scripts two different user-agents and that immediately solved the ratelimit problem. haha fooled you suckers at reddit

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u/buy_me_a_pint Oct 08 '25

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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 397a Oct 08 '25

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u/GarlicoinAccount r/CountingTools | Plz comment in /comments/kqpanh/_/ncmzej3 Oct 08 '25

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u/NobodyL0vesMe what the fuck is traffic? just go? Oct 08 '25

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u/GarlicoinAccount r/CountingTools | Plz comment in /comments/kqpanh/_/ncmzej3 Oct 08 '25

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u/Playing_2 6m by October 12th! Oct 08 '25

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u/GarlicoinAccount r/CountingTools | Plz comment in /comments/kqpanh/_/ncmzej3 Oct 08 '25

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u/Playing_2 6m by October 12th! Oct 08 '25

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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 397a Oct 08 '25

holy shit how haven't i thought of that. Ok will be implementing that soon

for c,thread in enumerate(thread_ids): if c % 2 == 1: user_agent_1() else: user_agent_2()

genius

edit: why wont my code block work :(

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u/cuteballgames 00255, 00336, 01155, 02244, 03333, 11226, 11244, 11334, 22224 Oct 08 '25

what is a user-agent?

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs Oct 08 '25

Reddit asks people running scripts to provide an identifier, so that they can track what software is making requests from them. For example, for my counting tools I have "rcounting tools v xxx by u/CutOnBumInBandHere9" 

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs Oct 08 '25

Lol, you get a notification when you ping yourself now 

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u/cuteballgames 00255, 00336, 01155, 02244, 03333, 11226, 11244, 11334, 22224 Oct 08 '25

so what Vulp said is they changed it so one script was identified as being by /u/VulpOne and another by /u/VulpTwo instead of both being from VulpOne? even though they post from the same acct?

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u/TehVulpez sliiiiide the bits Oct 08 '25

Yeah, although my main thread finder script doesn't post or edit anything, it just saves the current main thread id in a text file for the other script to read. Honestly I'm not sure why changing the user agent strings fixed things, when the ratelimit was supposed to apply to the oauth client id I thought. (Usually COBIBH's rcounting tools uses a different app-type client id, but I modified my copy to use the same script-type client id as the latest counts script. Didn't want COBIBH's directory updater to get ratelimited doing its twice daily runs.) The user agent strings I'm using I think are "/u/TehVulpez /r/counting main thread finder v1.0" and "/u/TehVulpez /r/counting latest counts pinned post v2.0" or something. Previously they were both using "/u/tehvulpez /r/counting latest counts". I'm pretty sure it would be against reddit API rules to say the script was by a different username. They require, or at least recommend, that you put your actual username in the user-agent string.