Great plan what could go wrong?
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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Yea, what’s to stop me from creating a bot to ping the Reddit API, grab the top posts from a sub, check for duplicates, then repost to Lemmy using their API.
Granted, I’m making many an assumption here.
Did you hear about the recent Reddit API changes, by any chance?
If you use a personal api token that only you are using it shouldn't have enough usage to cost anything
Even if it did cause an issue. Web scrapping is viable too
Failing that, there’s always a combo of wayback machine, reveddit etc.
I didn't know you could generate a personal token.
My bad. Wrong choice of words. I meant an api access key that only you are using
Is "scrapping" autocorrect, a typo, or intended? Not meaning to be rude just interested because I've only heard of "web scraping" but often see people write "scrapping".
Not autocorrect. Just my half ass way of shortening the phrase
You can also scrape it from the HTML without calling the API directly