He's able to ask for multiple posts in one request so the actual request rate is fairly low:
> Here’s how we do it. We find the starting post ID, and then we get posts individually from https://api.reddit.com/api/info.json?id=. We’ll need to add a big list of post IDs to the end of that API URL.
> Here’s how we do it. We find the starting post ID, and then we get posts individually from https://api.reddit.com/api/info.json?id=. We’ll need to add a big list of post IDs to the end of that API URL.