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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Scrapping a reddit post with all its comments? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello,

I am not asking about scrapping a whole sunreddit or scrapping all reddit, now just a few select posts,

I noticed that lot of comments get "closed" and you need to open them up by clikcing the (+) button, that can take some time if the post has lot of comments,

I am searching for a way to download the content of one single post, BUT it must handle the (+) itself and it must be able to retrieve all comments (and keeping the parent-son or levels hierarchy).

How can I do that?

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

Just a heads up, it's scraping. Scrapping is (simple version) throwing something away or getting rid of it.

It wouldn't matter, but the title is what draws most users to a post, and you might get useless answers because of that, if people don't read the text.