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http://panoptikos.com/ did this pretty well for me in the last few months, but it's always nice to have several choices :)

Care to share the tech behind the site, and how it works ?

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Cool, I haven't seen that before. The tech is pretty simple, it's ruby on rails, and a cron job grabs the RSS feed for the Reddit home page, then downloads all of the posts that link to images hosted on imgur. The images are all uploaded to Amazon S3 and the server is on a free Heroku plan. The next feature I plan to add is a link back to the Reddit comments for each image.

I did find out that if imgur will block you if you retrieve too many images too fast.

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