abraham_linksys

joined 1 year ago
[–] abraham_linksys@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's possible but kind of pointless. Who wants to read a bunch of comments of people being wrong and not even be able to respond (directly) to them?

[–] abraham_linksys@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

API is changing in a few days, not being dropped. I haven't dug into it but I'm not too worried that usage will go above free tier. If that dies there's the .json versions of the site you can view by adding .json to most reddit URLs, and even if they kill that there will always be scraping.

[–] abraham_linksys@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Not sure how this would contribute to people still using Reddit/Twitter as their main feed? This is for mirroring subreddits so the content can be browsed from Lemmy and when you comment, your comment is viewed by others using Lemmy. I think this is good mainly for videos, images and links and discussing them here on Lemmy. Wouldn't make sense for subs where you want to interact directly with OP, like advice subs.

Thanks for the feedback though, a bot flag in the title would eliminate anyone mistaking a bot for a person.

[–] abraham_linksys@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I love it! Allow me to contribute to #chaoticgood with this bot I've been working on

https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/69416

 

I've been working on a bot to automate crossposting from a given subreddit to a given Lemmy community. It's pretty basic and not very well tested but it's working if anyone wants to try it out.

For now it relies on the Reddit API because it has a handy streaming object and I didn't know you could just go to a subs homepage and append ".json" to the URL

Features right now:

  • Watches a sub and posts to Lemmy as new posts come in
  • Pulls images and videos from third party hosts and includes them in posts
  • Copies titles and selftexts

With this we can close the "content gap" between Reddit and Lemmy, similar to everyone posting Digg content to Reddit as Digg died due to checks notes corporate mismanagement at efforts to monetize. Huh.

Comment, fork, star, open issues and enjoy.

[–] abraham_linksys@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Greetings from kbin.social, Lemmy's cooler younger cousin.