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What are some reddit content scraper services? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I deleted my reddit accounts completely by the first day of the APIpocalypse, and I removed all of the posts I had written under the principle that anything I had created was for the communities, which I saw as being destroyed by reddit’s moves. The content and moderation are the only source of value to social networks. I didn’t want what I had been doing for the past decade-plus to continue to be leveraged for monetization.

One person had replied that there are non-reddit affiliated archiving services that have been storing reddit content so deleting posts is ultimately useless. The site the person linked was what looked like a service catering to academic researchers, but O have since lost the link.

Does anyone know of such a site?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Search for the pushshift archives. They are big files containing all the posts and comments made for each subreddit. I used them to make a better website for reading AskHistorians.