RedDownloader is switching to Pushshift API!

[Jackhammer9]

For a long time now i have been running a private server connected to Reddit API to get post details. This comes at a heavy toll of a long time, rate limits and other issues. These issues are quite hard for even me to fix as i am not a very proffesional API developer and i obviously can't change Reddit's Rate limits. So in the incoming weeks i'll be switching to pushift API instead of the Jackhammer API.

The Advantages of this move are going to be tremendous!

1. Download speed will increase atleast 5 fold! Early tests have shown averge download speed increasing from 30 seconds to 5 seconds for the same post.
2. No rate limits! Very frequently now a days a lot of people pose a same issue not being able to download more than 8-10 posts. The issue is very peculiar as it's quite hard to replicate. Some people face them and some don't. With a light weight API like that of Pushift downloading would be a same experience for everyone!

So sit back and relax as the new API starts integrating into RedDownloader, maybe not all features of RedDownloader will
be able to exist upon Pushift that's why the legacy API too would power such features.

Apart from that i appreciate everyone's support towards this project!

RedDownloader with new API will be released in the following weeks i'll create a new branch for commits for anyone interested in monitoring the progress.

I will kick start the new API with RedDownloader 5.0.0