@jaredwhite if Reddit really doesn't want people harvesting text from the site, why don't they block webcrawlers?

APIs are frequently an attempt to take away as opposed to give as they are often less functional than the web and often harder to implement; when you're lucky you can add a new site to a web crawler in 15 seconds.

Every API implementation is a one-off and usually leaves you gasping for air through a rate-limited straw.