I’m a PhD student in accounting studying how access to information technologies affects retail investor trading. In July 2023, Reddit restricted access to its API by introducing paid access, and I’m trying to understand how that change impacted individual users and investors.
If you relied on any third-party apps or tools that were affected (e.g., apps that shut down or significantly reduced functionality), I’d really appreciate hearing about your experience. I’m also interested in any personal coding projects that depended on the Reddit API (for scraping, monitoring sentiment, alerts, dashboards, etc.) and whether you had to modify or abandon them.
If you’re comfortable sharing, please include:
The app/tool or project name (or a brief description)
Your typical use case (what you were trying to do)
What changed after July 2023 (cost, missing features, workarounds, alternatives)
Thanks in advance!