I'm considering making a reddit to lemmy cross posting tool. - Lemmy
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Idea: Scrape all the posts from a subreddit as they’re being made, and “archive” them on a lemmy instance, making it very clear it’s being rehosted, and linking back to the original. It would probably have to be a “closed” lemmy instance specifically for this purpose. The tool would run for multiple subreddits, allowing Lemmy users to still be updated about and discuss any potential content that gets left behind. Thoughts? It’s probably iffy copyright-wise, but I think I can square my conscience with it.

(attempt to cross-post from /c/programming )

Idea: Scrape all the posts from a subreddit as they’re being made, and “archive” them on a lemmy instance, making it very clear it’s being rehosted, and linking back to the original. It would probably have to be a “closed” lemmy instance specifically for this purpose. The tool would run for multiple subreddits, allowing Lemmy users to still be updated about and discuss any potential content that gets left behind.

Thoughts? It’s probably iffy copyright-wise, but I think I can square my conscience with it.

  • borariEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Reddit implemented rate limits on page loads to combat the inevitable web scraping

    This whole time I was wondering how the API changes made any sense when anyone disgruntled about it could just turn to scraping, putting drastically more load on Reddit’s infrastructure. It makes me feel a bit better that they aren’t that clueless.