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Script to clone subreddit to Lemmy? (lemmy.tf)
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Has anyone made or found a script to scrape a subreddit and import it to a Lemmy community? There are a handful of smaller subs that I'd like to mirror over to my instance (with author attribution) but haven't found anything that works yet. https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter looks promising but links to a non-functioning Python script (tries to use Pushshift, which isn't working at the moment).

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would suggest that any scraping should either also link back or post a comment linking to the new community, ideally we attract as opposed to just copy

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah that's definitely what I want, anything cloned over here would ideally have both author attribution and a direct link to the original Reddit post at the very top of each post.