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Yea, what’s to stop me from creating a bot to ping the Reddit API, grab the top posts from a sub, check for duplicates, then repost to Lemmy using their API.

Granted, I’m making many an assumption here.

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You can also scrape it from the HTML without calling the API directly

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Did you hear about the recent Reddit API changes, by any chance?

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If you use a personal api token that only you are using it shouldn’t have enough usage to cost anything

Even if it did cause an issue. Web scrapping is viable too

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Is “scrapping” autocorrect, a typo, or intended? Not meaning to be rude just interested because I’ve only heard of “web scraping” but often see people write “scrapping”.

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I didn’t know you could generate a personal token.

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6 points

Failing that, there’s always a combo of wayback machine, reveddit etc.

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