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Is there a way to tell that a Reddit-hosted video post lacks audio?
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Take this post for instance: https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/comments/do54n3/wcgw_trying_to_rob_these_two_guys/
It doesn't have audio (and correspondingly the desktop video player doesn't show a mute/unmute button). The API response for the post indicates that "is_gif" is false, so the user didn't upload the video and intentionally get Reddit to remove the audio, they presumably just uploaded it as default and it already didn't have audio.
Is there a way to determine this through the API without having to, say download the HLS manifest and check if it contains audio streams? Say theoretically you were compiling a statistic of how many lacked audio channels.
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