Using Python, How can I create a bot/script that let’s me re-post a subreddit’s post to Lemmy?
Just wanted to do a simple little project to practice my programming skills.
I just need to know the outline/backbone of things I should know to do this project.
This should get you started:
import requests # Fetch post from Reddit API def fetch_reddit_post(): reddit_url = "https://www.reddit.com/r/{subreddit}/comments/{post_id}.json" subreddit = "python" # Replace with the desired subreddit post_id = "abcdef" # Replace with the desired post ID url = reddit_url.format(subreddit=subreddit, post_id=post_id) headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3"} response = requests.get(url, headers=headers) if response.status_code == 200: post_data = response.json() return post_data else: print("Failed to fetch post from Reddit API") return None # Post to Lemmy API def post_to_lemmy(post_data): lemmy_url = "https://lemmy.ml/api/{version}/post" version = "v3" # Replace with the desired Lemmy API version url = lemmy_url.format(version=version) headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"} # Extract necessary information from the Reddit post title = post_data[0]["data"]["children"][0]["data"]["title"] content = post_data[0]["data"]["children"][0]["data"]["selftext"] # Create payload for Lemmy API payload = { "title": title, "body": content, "community_id": "abcdef", # Replace with the desired Lemmy community ID "auth": "your_auth_token" # Replace with your Lemmy API authentication token } response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers) if response.status_code == 200: print("Post successfully created on Lemmy") else: print("Failed to post to Lemmy API") # Fetch post from Reddit API post_data = fetch_reddit_post() if post_data: # Post to Lemmy API post_to_lemmy(post_data)
Nice work! A tip for the future you can use spoilers!
Like this!
Yeahhhhh
PRAW is the Python wrapper for Reddit’s API, and searching github for “lemmy api python” revealed some results, so you’d use one API to download a post, and the other to upload it.
There’s existing bots that do this though, and they all seem to just fill feeds with indiscriminate, un-replied to, spam
Why does everybody wants to use python 😔
It’s easy to learn, has many packages, one of the most well known languages
What language would you suggest for scripting like this?
Typescript (JS)
I can’t speak for everybody, but I found python easier to understand than the other language I tried (C++).
Also, python has Pandas which was really good because my initial track was related to data scientist.
Honestly this should be very straight forward. If your coming and asking this without doing any sort of work on your own does not bode well for you
maybe is a bit out of their league, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with asking and getting started that way. you don’t magically know what to do, asking can help you gather the steps required.
there is never anything wrong with asking and learning
Some people prefer interacting and learning with others, as opposed to struggling through Google searches and piles upon piles of shit YouTube videos.