Lemmy Scraper - Posts, Comments, Communities & Search
Pricing
from $5.00 / 1,000 results
Scrape Lemmy (any instance) via the official public REST API v3: a site-wide feed by sort/type, posts from named communities, recent comments, and full-text search over communities/posts/users/comments. Federated Reddit-alternative data, no credentials, no proxy required.
You can access the Lemmy Scraper - Posts, Comments, Communities & Search programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "instance": "lemmy.world",10 "communities": ["technology"],11 "searchTerms": ["selfhosted"],12}13
14# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish15run = client.actor("navy_currant/lemmy-fediverse-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)16
17# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)18print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])19for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():20 print(item)21
22# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Lemmy Scraper - Posts, Comments, Communities & Search API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: