Reddit

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Reddit is a link aggregator and bulletin board silo. Community members in multiple communities (subreddits) may submit links and text posts, vote on the submitted entries, and post comments. As community members vote a post up or down, the site and moderators determine how to position a post within the news feed.

The algorithmic upvote / downvote system means Reddit may serve as an effective crowd-sourced curation and discovery tool. In theory the "best" links (as determined by a particular subreddit's users) are pushed to the top. As a result, sites pushed to Reddit's front page experience may experience traffic surges.

How to

How to backfeed

Bridgy backfeed Reddit posts and comments

If you go to https://brid.gy/ there’s an option to authenticate with Reddit, when you do so, Bridgy connects via your authorization and can then send you webmentions for Reddit posts that link to your site, and first level comments on those posts.

Or you can DIY:

Poll feeds without authentication

Reddit provides an XML (RSS 2.0) and JSON feed by domain.

Example for tommorris.org: JSON, XML

Check out those URLs and create equivalents to poll for backfeed for your own domain!

How to export

Anyone know how to export your posts and comments from Reddit?

Into what format?

Basic Reddit Content Exporter (Reddit to JSON, runs in-browser)

I ( Dan Q) have implemented a block of Javascript that you can use to export all of your Reddit comments, posts, gildings, upvoted-things etc. as a huge block of JSON. It runs in your browser to exploit make use of your Reddit cookie rather than using a modhash. As a result, it's best for one-off bulk exports rather than ongoing-PESOS: however, it could easily be adapted. It can also be used to export other people's data, but it'll only get that which is visible to the user you're logged-in as (e.g. it won't get their posts in subreddits you're not a member of, it won't get their upvotes unless they've opted-in to sharing that data, etc.).

Get it at https://gist.github.com/Dan-Q/1129e91db2c74cdd0c057b477702bfca. Instructions are at the top.

Features

The features below are only available to Reddit community members:

  • Vote posts up or down to determine their position in the site feed
  • Deeply-threaded comment system
  • The ability to create your own category pages (called "subreddits")

Criticism

See Also

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