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Yes, that's what I did. I've made reddit bots before so I just modified one of my old ones to go through every one of my comments and save them in an excel file. I then edited the comments to say that if anyone needs a particular comment, they should message me on Lemmy. IMO it's the best of both worlds - people can still get their data in case my comments were helpful, and Reddit won't get my comments
Any efficient and not too difficult way to archive and/or edit my stuff, now that the API access is gone?
I literally didn’t have time to deal with this before, working and moving during previous weeks, but I would prefer to stick it to spez on the way out.
E.g. if I request my data from reddit to fuck with them, is the output I get in 30 days useful?
As far as I know, the API isn't, strictly speaking, down - just that it's pretty rate-limited with regards to how many calls you can make before you get charged. Since my script runs on my own bot, which should (theoretically) only run on one user at a time, I don't think it'll be affected. DM me - I could send the script over, or we can work out any details if you're interested in using it