OC GitHub - v1nsai/red2lem: Crossposts from Reddit to Lemmy

lixus98, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I also made a similar bot, might be useful!, this one doesn't check every single post, only external links, I didn't want to repost original content or spam communities, so the post only gets one post per hour (which can be changed) and checks the community to see if there's a similar post there already (same link).

Edit: it uses the json page, and filters posts based on upvotes, downvotes, age, etc. It supports multiple subreddits and communities at the same time.

https://github.com/daniel-lxs/BotIt

Mnmalst, 10 months ago

Ah sweet I was about to start working on something like this. Will definitely use it in the future. Thanks
*edit: Ah it still uses the public json endpoints. A "real" scrapper might be necessary in the future.

lixus98, 10 months ago

You are right, I already had a scraper in progress, if it comes down to it I will use that instead.
Edit: also you can contribute if you want to, suggestions are 100% open.

Mnmalst, 10 months ago

I might if I find something I am missing.
I have some specific requirements when it comes to scrapping. I am planning to use it on my phone in termux which doesn't allow all nodejs modules. Sadly also the most popular scrappers which use a xserver in the background. So it has to be very basic html scrapping which should be possible when you do it on the old.reedit site.

lixus98, 10 months ago

I see, I used node bc that's what I'm most familiarized with. I'm running it from Digitalocean and seems to be stable for now.
But if you have different requirements you should definitely give making one a go.

Mnmalst, 10 months ago

Oh, nothing wrong with node at all. I used it for something very similar in the past myself. It's just that certain modules just don't work in termux.

chuso, 10 months ago

I know crossposters make transition easier for people who find it hard to completely switch from Reddit to Lemmy, but we've been there already in Mastodon and crossposters were not very appreciated because they are basically bots. They allow you to continue using Reddit or Twitter as your main account while you mirror your content to Lemmy or Mastodon.
It's frustrating for people who actually use Lemmy or Mastodon to find some content they want to interact with and later notice it's from an unattended account that is just mirroring content from another site so your interactions won't get any reply because you are basically talking to a bot.

abraham_linksys, 10 months 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.

Zamboniman, 10 months ago

Wasn’t able to get it working. Some error about ’ attempted relative import with no known parent package’. I know nothing about python. See Github issue I created for more details.

Zamboniman, 10 months ago

How do we set it up for multiple subreddits/communities rather than just the one in vars.py?

BedSharkPal, 10 months ago

Looks like it posts images without domain checking? I assume that would result in a bunch of Reddit hosted images being posted here?

Tarte, 10 months ago

Awesome!

I don't know how to set any of this up. But if anyone manages to get /r/AskHistorians crossposted here, that'd be awesome. I believe that's a prime target for crossposts, because for most people it's read-only anyway and not discussion.

r3dcomet, 10 months ago

this would be so much easier for people to transition ! thank you

r7vil50j, 10 months ago

Thanks for your contribution!

mianghuei, 10 months ago

Was there some script or program that scrapes a subreddit and export/converts it into Lemmy/Fediverse database?

greensky, 10 months ago

https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter

NotAPenguin, 10 months ago

There's https://lemmit.online/ which mirrors subreddits, you can request ones you want mirrored.

However I can't seem to access it from kbin at all.

Jaysyn, 10 months ago

Wlll this work for kBin as well?

lixus98, 10 months ago

It should, since it's all federated a lemmy account can post on kbin

Jaysyn, 10 months ago

Thanks for the info.

greensky, 10 months ago

Can we do that for comments?

abraham_linksys, 10 months ago

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?

Tarte, 10 months ago

Already posted above: I believe /r/AskHistorians would be a prime use case.

greensky, 10 months ago

Comments are often more valuable than posts. Keeping an archive of posts and comments on Lemmy can be valuable.

Dick_Justice, 10 months ago

Nice! You may be interested in talking to the admin working on https://lemmit.online who is doing much the same thing with success. Maybe y'all could collab or share notes or something. Details on what he's doing are here: https://lemmy.world/comment/325260

tikitaki, 10 months ago

since reddit API is gonna die in 9 days, are there any plans to do anything else?

abraham_linksys, 10 months 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.

Zamboniman, 10 months ago

I think I'll take a look and give this a try, thanks.