Requests blocked as of 1 May

[dziban303]

I was wondering why the lockscreen image hadn't updated in several days. Turns out that Reddit appears to be blocking requests now.

Invoke-WebRequest:


    Blocked

      body {
          font: small verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
          width: 600px;
          margin: 0 auto;
      }

      h1 {
          height: 40px;
          background: transparent url(//www.redditstatic.com/reddit.com.header.png) no-repeat scroll top right;
      }



    whoa there, pardner!

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I tried using a different useragent string but it kept blocking requests.

It turns out that changing the URLs used from https://reddit.com to https://old.reddit.com fixed the problem for me. I have a suspicion that this problem was plaguing me alone, but maybe not?

[VictorColomb]

I have a Linux in dual-boot and I quite rarely come back to Windows, so much so that I had not noticed, but it indeed has stopped working on my end too. That blows...

According to this, Reddit seems to now be enforcing mandatory authentication on their APIs. To be honest, I am not going to develop an entire OAuth2 client to make this continue to work. Still, good to hear that old.reddit.com is still working. Hopefully that lasts for a while!

If you would like to take a crack at this, I'll happily archive this repo and include a link to your fork in the README. Let me know!