• Teppic@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    But r/place is ruled by bots… I bet the kind of people who develop bots are reeeeaaaly pleased about the API changes…

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      I haven’t done so, but r/place would be extremely easy to write a bot using Selenium to place pixels without an API. It is a giant grid, and once you write a function to place at coordinates on the grid (which would be the hardest part, but still trivial) you can parallelize it and do whatever you want.

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        Oh absolutely, but the venn diagram of people who can do this, and people who value open APIs is pretty close to a circle.