There is a fork that also incorporates small browser to scrape reddit directly. No cookies needed but UX gets a hit(poster names censored until opening the post, not all comments loaded at once, search not working, 403 errors).

Reminds me of this anecdote: "A guy takes up the job of a firefighter. In a month he recounts to his friend:

• The job’s good, excellent pay, great people. But every time we are called to a fire I feel like resigning"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/19/phishing-url-trick-hackers

https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots

Bot traffic describes any non-human Internet traffic…