Working subreddit migrator? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi there! I moderate a couple subreddits and would like to bring at least a copy of them to lemmy (so I can move them entirely if I decide/am forced to).

I have searched on google and github extensively but since I‘m quite new to python, frankensteining a working script is out of reach just now.

Since the pushshift api has stopped working afaik, most scripts I find will not work. I tried a couple, all with the same outcome so far.

I‘m in contact with a couple coder friends to find someone able to make this work and have at least some seed content (100 posts, all if possible) for these subreddits.

Does anyone here have a working script? And why are we not seeing massive copies of subreddit emerge? Has it just become impossible? (It should at least be possible to use a headless browser to copy the data by „manually“ sifting through subs.

Hope to find someone who can help. Have a good one! :)

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

copy posts

Lemmit does that.

copy posts and comments

Leddit does that.

Good luck :-)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you very much! I‘ll check it out!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

What do you mean by "copy" a subreddit? Do you mean you want to keep all of the posts ever submitted to the subreddit? What any comments?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Well, either of those would be great. Posts would be good but as you‘re correctly pointing out the answers would be great. A place like memes would be ok just with the posts but the subs I mod are support subs so peeps would need the answers.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Maybe you'd be interested in this If you want to save the existing reddit content for future off-reddit use, you should get involved with Archiveteam - RedditMigration - kbin.social

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for mentioning it. I checked the site and referenced stuff. It‘s interesting but I actually dont have the expertise to understand this enough to derive an answer to my problem from it.

That said I‘ve read a couple other comments that provide pretty interesting solutions. Will work on a solution once I‘ve got more time on my hands.

Have a good one.

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