Hello! I wrote a simple bot that periodically checks for new reddit posts and posts them to lemmy, so that people migrating from reddit to lemmy can still be able to see their favourite posts, but familiarizing with lemmy.

currently the coments are not synced, but this may change in the future (perhaps)

Yes, it uses the Reddit API, so it will stop working on the 1st of July, but I think that then I can implement a sort of web scraper to access Reddit posts without the official API, so this may eventually keep working for a while.

this script is currently on my laptop so it will be offline most of the time, but if I get the approval I may host it somewhere to get it running 24h/24.

now the question… Is this allowed? having this bot running 24h/24 on large subreddits will mean a very high quantity of posts. will this cause any problem to Lemmy?

if you want a preview check out https://enterprise.lemmy.ml/c/reddit_memes, where I started syncing a few posts from r/memes

let me know your opinion on this!

==== EDIT

here’s the bot source code

The bot is now running in https://sh.itjust.works/c/reddit_memes, let’s try to see if it work (I hope that shit just works)

I’m a bit concerned about the legality of this, if anyone has any info please tell me!

  • awdsns@feddit.de
    4·
    1 year ago

    I was thinking of something like that too, but probably never would’ve gotten around to implement it myself, so thanks! Could you put your script on Github or something maybe?

    Also it would be great if it could also copy at least top-level comments by OP, because that’s often used for linking to a source.

    • tubbadu@lemmy.oneOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yes I’ll upload the code very soon!

      Also it would be great if it could copy at least top-level comments by OP, because that’s often used for linking to a source.

      Great idea! Thanks!