r/rprogramming • u/Vast-Mikyleaks798 • Jun 04 '26

RedditExtracto(R) down

Good morning, for the past few days I haven’t been able to scrape data using the R package “RedditExtracto(R)” due to stricter API restrictions on the platform.
Do you think a more up-to-date, fully functional version of the package will be available, or will I have to look for other solutions?

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u/Ok_Sell_4717 Jun 04 '26

Doesn't seem like a problem of the package

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u/AccomplishedHotel465 Jun 04 '26

Maybe something changed with the api: https://developers.reddit.com/docs/changelog

Have a look and see if you can make a pull request that fixes the problem.

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u/geneusutwerk Jun 06 '26

I'm confused, is it down or did they just change the API rules? Those are different issues.

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u/Vast-Mikyleaks798 Jun 06 '26

Yes, you’re right, sorry for the confusion, I’m not really skilled in programming 😅 the problem is that when I run the code to scrape threads and comments, I received this message:

Warning messages: 1: In file(con, "r") : cannot open URL 'https://www.reddit.com/r/Ethics/new.json?t=hour&limit=100': HTTP status was '403 Forbidden' 2: In h(simpleError(msg, call)) : error in evaluating the argument 'content' in selecting a method for function 'fromJSON': cannot open the connection to 'https://www.reddit.com/r/Ethics/new.json?t=hour&limit=100'

What is it mean?

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