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!

  • Noved@lemmy.ca
    3·
    2 years ago

    I thought about this yesterday but definitely don’t have the skills to make it happen. Tbh I would go ahead with it, but know you will be required to moderate the posts. I wouldn’t set it up to post on a community that isn’t yours.

    • tubbadu@lemmy.oneOP
      3·
      2 years ago

      No of course I would create a specific community for each subreddit I want to sync

      Are you referring to moderating the comments? I was thinking of restricting the post privileges to only the bot

      • Noved@lemmy.ca
        2·
        2 years ago

        Naw just the posts, I guess it depends on if the Bot is scraping all posts or just the top ones.