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I looked into building something like this but I think most people are scared off because the TOS prohibit doing that, so I didn’t investigate further :/

What are some reddit content scraper services? by raffomania in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Search for the pushshift archives. They are big files containing all the posts and comments made for each subreddit. I used them to make a better website for reading AskHistorians.

Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open by raffomania in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

If you’d buy a new laptop, you could upgrade the old one instead

I created a user-friendly reader for AskHistorians, using the pushshift archives by raffomania in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yes! Archiving is crucial work, but the archives need to be accessible as well :)

I created a user-friendly reader for AskHistorians, using the pushshift archives by raffomania in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Getting the wiki in there might be possible by scraping, but it's a lot of work and tricky to do - right now I only have the posts and comments available.

I'll build upvote sorting soon :)

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I created a user-friendly reader for AskHistorians, using the pushshift archives (ask-historians-archive.netlify.app)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wanted a way to browse the AskHistorians subreddit on my phone without using the reddit app or website. It also bugged me to have all this valuable information on a site that might make it disappear on a whim.

So, I present to you the AskHistorians Archive. It allows you to browse past submissions to the subreddit, it’s ad-free, works on mobile, loads fast, and works without JS.

For now, it only contains some of the most recent posts up until 2022-12-31, but I’m planning to upload more over time.

I hope this is useful to some - happy to hear and implement any feedback!

I created a reader for the AskHistorians reddit archives by raffomania in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yes - The tool already works for any subreddit, but there's some polishing to be done to make it work well (e.g. showing nested comments). I'm also still looking for a good way to host more posts as it's quite a lot.

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I created a reader for the AskHistorians reddit archives (ask-historians-archive.netlify.app)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After the whole reddit API fiasco, I wanted a way to browse the AskHistorians subreddit on my phone without using the reddit app or website. It also bugged me to have all this valuable information on a site that might make it disappear on a whim.

So, I present to you the AskHistorians Archive. It allows you to browse past submissions to the subreddit, it's ad-free, works on mobile, loads fast, and works without JS.

For now, it only contains some of the most recent posts up until 2022-12-31, but I'm planning to upload more over time.

I hope this is useful to some - happy to hear and implement any feedback!

Introducing XPipe: A brand-new type of shell connection hub and remote file manager by raffomania in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Looks interesting! What are some of the things you use this for?

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Is there a way to donate? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’d like to support mlem development.