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An alternative to scraping from is there any deals and friends... (lemmit.online)

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

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I stumbled upon this and I immediately thought of this channel.

Someone is running a bot that'll scrape a website-that-shall-not-be-named. It'll only mirror threads (not comments) and the author / community seem very passionate to subvert any api limits that the scraped company may impose.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It isn't scraping, just using the RSS feeds. I don't know if those feeds will stop at the end of the month.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this might be worth doing as a one-time thing just to set the tone for what a new community is about. Scrape the top voted 200 of all time as a seed.

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