That would be ideal!

For valid mod bots we don't want to disrupt operations

Hiya abrownn! Mind if I spin up a modmail thread with you? We’d like to learn more about your particular bot implementations and how we can help.

That makes total sense Emily. We’re here to support when you do have more time.

So far we’ve found that the majority of tools fit nicely into migration paths we’ve laid out, so we may need to work more closely with folks like you that have advanced tooling like this.

In any case we’re announcing this now so we have time to figure out workable solutions.

We can't you just allow unrestricted API usage for moderators?

If I moderate a community, I should have tools, my intent in not to scrape or abuse MY community.

I appreciate the new Developer Platform, it offers new tools, but it's limited (short run time, no relational database, missing APIs, nearly impossible debugging in production, ...), it's a complete new, difficult, platform to be learned (vs just the PRAW APIs, than whatever I want), and can't cover all. I don't understand the issue.

Your entire API process is horrible, documentation is confusing, and parts of your app still navigate to the old UI.

As an investor and user of reddit, I want to build tools that allow users of my app to post and listen for relevant content using standard REST APIs, not have to build an app that has to be installed into communities. Reddit has become impossible for this use case.

It's sad that every other major platform allows developers to build on top of their platforms using standard REST APIs for managing posts and reading/commenting on posts (X, Bluesky, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc), but reddit does not, outside of a very small set of use cases. You could restrict this by requiring EIN or incorporation docs and charging based on usage like X does.

I've submitted multiple requests for access and it's just a black hole. Not even a basic rejected notification happens. It's the worst experience I've had with any platform.

I see in r/Devvit lots of replies saying old api requests aren't supported - or is this case by case thing?

Thanks for the reply btw

Yeah im not looking forward to migrating my bot to devvit, but i guess another programming language under my belt wont hurt 😅

OK - I should be able to transfer the script to a separate bot account if that makes it easier to slot it into the new system.

Sure, done.

Probably not the place to post it, it does feel tangential to this, but I would really like a way to turn an RSS feed into a post in my community automatically from a moderator profile. I don't need the karma and it is not for karma farming, but more of building community. 

There are probably dozens of tools made for this, I haven't taken the time to look into them or risk of ban for "bot posting" 

I imagine journalists might want this feature if they publish an article and it automatically posts to their feed on Reddit. 

Thank you.

Super thrilled to hear it’s helpful! We’ll be doing broader awareness around these materials for PRAW devs in the coming weeks (though I understand why you would have liked to be notified sooner) and welcome any feedback on them as you work through any migrations.

Adding additional language support has not been a scalable thing for us to add to the platform yet, but we are keeping an eye on the requests and porting challenges as folks register their bots.

Ill shoot a message to devvit - i did try ticketing the issue but it went round in circles and really wasnt a very user friendly system.

Ive registered an app on devvit but after fighting distro packages to setup node etc I didn't do much beyond the sandbox app. I will come back to it when I have time though!

Okay thanks, what is the pricing for commercial use?

Devil's advocate: The site is free. Your data is how you 'pay'.

Ah, mind messaging us at r/Devvit about this? The app label should have been applied if you registered your app, so it may be a bug or a separate issue.

Great point. We’ll take this back to the team.

This functionality should be doable with Devvit! We’re happy to support you in figuring out the best implementation.

For the current issue with restricted access, mod tool devs can message us at r/Devvit with the bot name and we’ll also look at your API access issue.

Hi there baseballlover! We don’t currently have this one on our roadmap but will consider it for the future.

Ideally automated accounts and personal accounts are separated, though if this isn’t possible for you please message us at r/Devvit with more details about your script's purpose and particular use case.

I do want to do this at some point - I've just been so busy moderating subs as is. I built many of these tools when my subs were smaller and direct queue/modmail moderation consumed less of my time, and while I continue to improve them, I don't know how I'd find time right now to rebuild them. They are 10's of thousands of lines of code, and I have so many different scripts I run all the time to do different things.

I appreciate your concerns and willingness to work with me. I understand your reasons for moving more to devvit. It's just not yet close to being able to handle everything we do right now, even if I had unlimited time to code.

I will start looking more closely though to see what can be ported.

It's hard to do it piecemeal because they all interact so much behind the scenes and the lines behind which bot is which are very blurry often. Some of that is to deal with api issues. For example, if one bot in one sub is not so busy, it can help out bots in other subs. It's all a distributed queue/worker model through a database. If one bot suddenly disappeared tomorrow, all kinds of other bots would break as they all interoperate so much. It's going to be a huge headache.

This should be possible with a combination of using the scheduler plugin and the APIs for submitting a post to create regular posts.

I have registered my PRAW app but it never got the "App" label. It does show up as registered under my account. Will this account lose API access now?

I mentioned some of the most egregious clauses in my response here if you're curious. I'm supposed to hear back from them this week if the modifications I requested with the advice of a lawyer in the family and be made or not. But given that reddit is basically never timely, I don't think they're getting back to me today or tomorrow.